Los Angeles · Downtown – Pershing Square
The Biltmore Los Angeles
Schultze & Weaver's 1923 hotel on Pershing Square, host to eight Academy Awards; HHA repeats the story that the Oscar statuette was sketched here.
- Built
- 1923Opened 1923 facing Pershing Square.
- Style
- Mediterranean / Spanish-Italian Renaissance Revival
- Architect
- Schultze & Weaver
- Type
- Grand hotel
- Area
- Downtown – Pershing Square
- Credentials
- Local landmark; Historic Hotels of America member
The story
Built facing Pershing Square to designs by New York architects Schultze & Weaver, the 14-story Biltmore opened in 1923 and became Los Angeles’ social center. It hosted eight Academy Awards ceremonies during Hollywood’s Golden Age, and HHA repeats the oral tradition that art director Cedric Gibbons sketched the Oscar statuette here. The city made it Historic-Cultural Monument No. 60 in 1969, and it has appeared in films from Chinatown to Oppenheimer.
Good to know
- Address: 506 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90071
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Last verified October 2026. Details change; confirm with the inn before you book.