Hollywood Knickerbocker Hotel, Opened 1925, Converted 1929

Hollywood Knickerbocker Hotel, Opened 1925, Converted 1929

1925, The Hollywood Knickerbocker Apartments, formerly the Knickerbocker Hotel, is a senior home located at 1714 Ivar Avenue in Los Angeles, California. Built in 1925 by E.M. Frasier in Spanish Colonial.  Thank you to Waldina. 

from Martin Trumbull, 

The Knickerbocker Hotel at 1714 Ivar Ave, Hollywood. It opened in 1923 as a luxury apartment building before subsequently becoming a hotel with a slogan of “Your home for a year or a day”. It’s had quite the history, playing host to the likes of Rudolph Valentino, Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio, Frank Sinatra, Lana Turner, Mae West, and Cecil B. DeMille among many, others. On the downside, D.W. Griffith died of a stroke on July 21, 1948 under the crystal chandelier of the lobby; costume designer named Irene Gibbons jumped to her death from a hotel window; William Frawley, who lived at the hotel for decades, died of a heart attack on the sidewalk in front of the Knickerbocker. In 1970 it was converted into housing for senior citizens which it remains to this day.

1925, Opened as a luxury apartment house in 1925 and then converted to a hotel in 1929.  Thanks to John Nelson.  

Thank you to Realtor Sara Wynne.  

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1958, Knickerbocker Hotel advertisement.