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Post #423 for the LA Noire Freeroam Explorer Project — posting locations replicated by Team Bondi for LA Noire (currently touring the downtown area) that are not considered landmarks (either official or historic) but do have real-world equivalents.

Hotel ValDemar

606 South Hope Street

Originally opening in 1919, the Hotel ValDemar (sometimes spelled as Val De Mar) would serve as a rooming house and hotel along with retail storefronts before being demolished in 1955 to make way for the new Lincoln Savings headquarters (later the site of the current Library Court building).

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Post #422 for the LA Noire Freeroam Explorer Project — posting locations replicated by Team Bondi for LA Noire (currently touring the downtown area) that are not considered landmarks (either official or historic) but do have real-world equivalents.

Hotel Trenton

427 South Olive Street

Built in 1905, the seven-story Hotel Trenton featured 165 rooms, along with offices and cafés. To reduce insurance costs, the elevator shaft was enclosed in fireproof glass. The hotel also offered a rooftop garden, steam heat from the basement, and both hot and cold water.

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Post #421 for the LA Noire Freeroam Explorer Project — posting locations replicated by Team Bondi for LA Noire (currently touring the downtown area) that are not considered landmarks (either official or historic) but do have real-world equivalents.

Hotel Sequoia

619 S Olive Street

The Beaux-Arts Hotel Sequoia was a single-room occupancy hotel owned by Dorothy Dorr. Originally opening in 1907, the building also included retail tenants on the ground floor (including a sandwich shop around the time of the game).

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Hotel Savoy

565 South Grand Avenue

Owner Frank Simpson, Sr., commissioned the Los Angeles architecture firm of Morgan, Walls and Clements to design this 11-story, Italian Renaissance palazzo. The architects received an award citation from the American Institute of Architects (AIA), Southern California Chapter, for the design.

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Post #419 for the LA Noire Freeroam Explorer Project — posting locations replicated by Team Bondi for LA Noire (currently touring the downtown area) that are not considered landmarks (either official or historic) but do have real-world equivalents.

Hotel Ritz

813 South Flower Street

The Hotel Ritz, the work of noted Los Angeles architects Curlett and Beelman and opening in 1923, is considered an excellent example of Renaissance Revival commercial architecture in Downtown Los Angeles. Due to a street widening in 1930, architects moved the hotel’s front facade in by five feet.

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Post #418 for the LA Noire Freeroam Explorer Project — posting locations replicated by Team Bondi for LA Noire (currently touring the downtown area) that are not considered landmarks (either official or historic) but do have real-world equivalents.

Hotel Portsmouth

520 South Hill Street

The Hotel Portsmouth was a three-story brick structure opposite Pershing Square, with retail space on the ground floor ground floor and residential rooms above. It notably suffered a series of fires in 1919, resulting in moderate damage to the hotel, and would ultimately be demolished in 1955.

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Hotel Lyle

962 South Broadway

Built in 1912 as a commercial storefront, the Hotel Lyle was remodeled the following year by owner Meyer Lissner to establish a rooming-house on the second story, and eventually a proper hotel and restaurant. It was substantially remodeled in 1947 (making the in-game depiction likely anachronistic).

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Post #416 for the LA Noire Freeroam Explorer Project — posting locations replicated by Team Bondi for LA Noire (currently touring the downtown area) that are not considered landmarks (either official or historic) but do have real-world equivalents.

Hotel Lindy

417 West 8th Street

The Hotel Lindy, aka the Whitmarsh Building, was built in 1905 as a Single-Room Occupancy (SRO) hotel. On the ground floor of the building is the Golden Gopher, a bar that has been in continuous operation since before World War II, notable for having the oldest operating liquor license in LA.

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Post #415 for the LA Noire Freeroam Explorer Project — posting locations replicated by Team Bondi for LA Noire (currently touring the downtown area) that are not considered landmarks (either official or historic) but do have real-world equivalents.

Hotel Lennox

315–319 South Flower Street

Built in 1914 for W.W. Paden and Louis Nordingler, the Leonard L. Jones-designed Hotel Lennox catered to a mix of transient travelers, working-class locals, and long-term downtown residents. It had a tripartite-back structure, maximizing sunlight and air circulation, and would be demolished in 1962.

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Hotel Figueroa

939 South Figueroa Street

Opened in 1926 by the YWCA as a haven for professional women, the Hotel Figueroa was at the time the largest US commercial building financed, owned, and operated by women. Though men originally had limited access, the hotel expanded its clientele two years later to include them to boost business.

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Post #413 for the LA Noire Freeroam Explorer Project — posting locations replicated by Team Bondi for LA Noire (currently touring the downtown area) that are not considered landmarks (either official or historic) but do have real-world equivalents.

Hotel Dagmar

840 South Hope Street

The Hotel Dagmar was built in 1911 by real estate developer Albert G. Schaefer. Originally a hybrid residential and transient hotel catering to business professionals, it later transitioned into a long-term rooming house, and would later make news as the site of an unsuccessful 1954 suicide attempt.

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Post #412 for the LA Noire Freeroam Explorer Project — posting locations replicated by Team Bondi for LA Noire (currently touring the downtown area) that are not considered landmarks (either official or historic) but do have real-world equivalents.

Hotel Clark Garage

Northeast corner of 4th Street and Olive Street

Although the Hotel Clark itself is located a full block to the east, the hotel built this parking structure (also known as the Center Garage) in 1919 to accommodate its guests. In the game, the garage is the location of a shootout in the Traffic street crime case “Hotel Bandits.”

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Post #411 for the LA Noire Freeroam Explorer Project — posting locations replicated by Team Bondi for LA Noire (currently touring the downtown area) that are not considered landmarks (either official or historic) but do have real-world equivalents.

Hotel Clark

426 South Hill Street

The eleven-story Beaux-Arts-style Hotel Clark was built by Eli P. Clark, one of the founders of the Pacific Electric Railway, and completed in 1914. Designed by Harrison Albright and boasting a capacity of 555 rooms, it became known for hosting such figures as Langston Hughes in the 1930s.

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Post #410 for the LA Noire Freeroam Explorer Project — posting locations replicated by Team Bondi for LA Noire (currently touring the downtown area) that are not considered landmarks (either official or historic) but do have real-world equivalents.

Hotel Bristol

423 West 8th Street

The 1906 Beaux Arts Bristol Hotel, originally the Hotel Woodward, was designed by architect Fred R. Dorn. The hotel is enterable in the game, and features briefly in the Traffic street crime case Hotel Bandits. Though not an official landmark, it is listed as a State of California Historic Resource.

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Post #409 for the LA Noire Freeroam Explorer Project — posting locations replicated by Team Bondi for LA Noire (currently touring the downtown area) that are not considered landmarks (either official or historic) but do have real-world equivalents.

Hop Louie’s Jade Pagoda

946 Mei Ling Way

The 50-foot-tall Hop Louie’s Jade Pagoda (known as the Golden Pagoda when it opened in 1938) is a longtime Chinatown bar that was in continuous operation at this location since 1941 before eventually closing in 2016. It was known for its iconic, neon-lit architecture.

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All right, back to our regularly scheduled alphabetical-order programming with post #408 for the LA Noire Freeroam Explorer Project — posting locations replicated by Team Bondi for LA Noire (back touring the downtown area) that are not considered landmarks (either official or historic) but do have real-world equivalents.

Home Telephone and Telegraph Company Building

716 South Olive Street

This 1907 Art Deco building was designed by architects Morgan and Walls as an exchange and offices for the Home Telephone and Telegraph Company (and later the Southern California Telephone Company). It underwent a significant remodel around 1930, and is known for its four pitched roof skylights.

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Still out of our regular alphabetical order, but almost back on track. Here's post #407 for the LA Noire Freeroam Explorer Project — posting locations replicated by Team Bondi for LA Noire (currently touring the downtown area) that are not considered landmarks (either official or historic) but do have real-world equivalents.

Hartfield’s Building

545 South Broadway

Hartfield’s was a women’s ready-to-wear apparel retailer in the Los Angeles area, with downtown storefronts both here and at the Lerner Shops Building at 749 South Broadway, as well as several outside the city. It would later expand into the discount department store space under the Zody’s brand.

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Still out of order, but bear with me — we’ll be back on track soon. Post #406 for the LA Noire Freeroam Explorer Project — posting locations replicated by Team Bondi for LA Noire (currently touring the downtown area) that are not considered landmarks (either official or historic) but do have real-world equivalents.

Eastman Linens/Mode O’Day Building

609–611 South Broadway

This 1930 French Renaissance-style retail building was designed by Los Angeles Theatre architect S. Charles Lee. It abuts the theatre’s north side, as its companion Mailing’s Building does on its south (though this structure does not have landmark status due to substantial later façade changes).

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Still running out of order with post #405 for the LA Noire Freeroam Explorer Project — posting locations replicated by Team Bondi for LA Noire (currently touring the downtown area) that are not considered landmarks (either official or historic) but do have real-world equivalents.

D.R. Wong Company

842 South Spring Street

The D.R. Wong Company was a Chinese Herb retailer operating since 1882. According to property records, this specific building dates to 1913, and was owned by the prominent Foster & Kleiser advertising company. (Though the entry appears to have gold-colored doorknobs, it is not enterable in-game.)

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