Check out Downtown Los Angeles’s architecture scene on this private tour of the area. You’ll hear about famous buildings like the Biltmore Hotel and Union Station and more buildings in the jewelry district. The tour finishes in Santee Alley, where you can stay and explore the market and have something to eat. Your guide can recommend some great options.
- Plan on three hours total for this tour
- Take your time and take plenty of photos along the way
- Your guide will navigate for you and take you around downtown
- Note this is wheelchair accessible and near public transportation
What To Expect
Los Angeles City Hall
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.
30 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Bradbury Building
Admire the Bradbury Building, a recognised landmark in LA and one of the oldest surviving Beau-Arts architecture buildings downtown.
30 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Title Guarantee Building Apartments
Walk to Title Guarantee Building from 1930, a former office building now loft-style apartments which showcase the verticality of Art Deco style.
15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Pershing Square
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.
15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
The CalEdison
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.
30 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Los Angeles Central Library
See Los Angeles Central Library from 1926, an example of an early Art Deco style saved from demolition in 1978 by Los Angeles Conservatory.
30 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Oviatt Building
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.
15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Eastern Columbia Lofts
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.
15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Highlight
Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Wheelchair accessible
Near public transportation
Travelers should have a moderate physical fitness level
This is a private tour/activity. Only your group will participate
Max group – 12
