Boyle Hotel - Cummings Block
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The historic Boyle Hotel sits at the corner of Boyle Avenue and First Street in the East Los Angeles
community of Boyle Heights. The building was formerly a hotel and a grocery store, and contains both Queen Anne
and Richardson Romanesque influences. In 2007 the building was declared a Los Angeles Cultural Monument
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The building is to be rehabilitated by East LA Community Corporation as affordable housing.. Ernesto Espinoza is the Director of Real Estate Development for East LA Community Corporation who helped line-up the $25 million dollars in public and private subsidies to develop 51 units of affordable housing at the Boyle Hotel - Cummings Block and adjacent parcels. ELACC will be adding a new 20 unit apartment building and joining it with the Boyle Hotel - Cumminsg Block. Construction is currently in process by Westport Construction Corporation/ICON Builders.
East Los Angeles (region)
East Los Angeles is the portion of the City of Los Angeles that lies east of Downtown Los Angeles, the Los Angeles River and the unincorporated areas of Lincoln Heights, west of the San Gabriel Valley, East Los Angeles and City Terrace, south of Cypress Park, and north of Vernon, California and...
community of Boyle Heights. The building was formerly a hotel and a grocery store, and contains both Queen Anne
Queen Anne Style architecture
The Queen Anne Style in Britain means either the English Baroque architectural style roughly of the reign of Queen Anne , or a revived form that was popular in the last quarter of the 19th century and the early decades of the 20th century...
and Richardson Romanesque influences. In 2007 the building was declared a Los Angeles Cultural Monument
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments are sites in Los Angeles, California, which have been designated by the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission as worthy of preservation based on architectural, historic and cultural criteria.-History:...
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The building is to be rehabilitated by East LA Community Corporation as affordable housing.. Ernesto Espinoza is the Director of Real Estate Development for East LA Community Corporation who helped line-up the $25 million dollars in public and private subsidies to develop 51 units of affordable housing at the Boyle Hotel - Cummings Block and adjacent parcels. ELACC will be adding a new 20 unit apartment building and joining it with the Boyle Hotel - Cumminsg Block. Construction is currently in process by Westport Construction Corporation/ICON Builders.