LA's Art Deco & Beaux Art Architecture: Private Walking Tour
- 3 hours
- Free cancellation up to 24h before
- Guided in English
- Instant confirmation
Highlights
Immerse yourself in the largely unknown architectural splendour of downtown Los Angeles, and explore some of the most incredible buildings of geometric patterns, brilliant colours, and luxurious materials that characterised Art Deco and its predecessor, Beaux Art. On your private tour, you will see glimmering marble columns, an art-deco library saved from demolition, Greek temples, and buildings designed to emulate the Paris exposition of 1925. You’ll wander through the jewellery district and see one of LA’s old movie theatre companies, which still evokes the feelings of ‘Old Hollywood’. Your tour will end in Santee Alley, where your guide will take you through a bit of the market before parting with you. Your guide will be the best source of food advice for downtown, so be sure not to miss out on all the spots where you can go on a culinary adventure.
Inclusions
What's included
- Plenty of time to take photos of your favourite places
- A friendly, professional tour guide for your own private group
What's not
- Gratuities (optional)
- No tickets required
- Food & drink
- Hotel pickup/drop-off
- Transportation on the day (if required)
Itinerary
Begin your tour at the Los Angeles City Hall, an iconic building in the city used in the films industry many times due to its eclectic style. Then, head towards the LA Courthouse, an Art Moderne architecture example.
Admire the Bradbury Building, a recognised landmark in LA and one of the oldest surviving Beau-Arts architecture buildings downtown.
Walk to Title Guarantee Building from 1930, a former office building now loft-style apartments which showcase the verticality of Art Deco style.
Explore Pershing Square where your tour guide will tell you about Art Deco and Beaux Art that precedes that period and show an example of a Beaux-Arts building which is the 1925 Biltmore hotel.
Discover the CalEdison building from 1931 on a prominent corner where you might be able to enter to see spectacular types of marble on the floor and columns.
See Los Angeles Central Library from 1926, an example of an early Art Deco style saved from demolition in 1978 by Los Angeles Conservatory.
Admire the Oviatt Building, with parts built in the Romanesque Revival style and others changed to resemble the Art Deco style after the owner visited the Paris exposition in 1925, and pass by PacMutual original from 1908 that resembles a Greek temple which was remodelled in the 1930s to give it an Art Deco look.
End your tour at the spectacular Eastern Columbia Building with its iconic clock tower and the spectacular greenish terra cotta originally built as a department store, now luxury condominiums one still owned by Johnny Depp.
Cancellation
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.
Reviews
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Know before you go
- Meeting point
- Your guide will meet you under the arches of Los Angeles City Hall main entrance, located at 200 N Spring St, Los Angeles, CA 90012, United States.
- Pickup
- Everyone meets at the starting point; there is no pickup.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Operated by
- Travel Curious
- Wheelchair accessible
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
How it compares in Los Angeles
- Its from-price is 33% below the median of the 240 city tours we list in Los Angeles.
- It is shorter than most of them.
- By number of reviews it ranks 115 of 240.
- The operator lists free cancellation on it.
About Los Angeles
Sunshine, beaches, film studios and canyons fill sprawling Los Angeles, where Hollywood glamour meets diverse neighbourhoods and great food.
Hollywood is the starting point for many visitors, with the Walk of Fame, the historic Chinese Theatre and its handprints in cement, and views of the Hollywood Sign from Griffith Observatory. Studio lots in Burbank and Universal City offer a behind-the-scenes look at film and television.
Top-ranked sights in Los Angeles: Hollywood Walk of Fame, Rodeo Drive, Hollywood Sign.
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