The Christie Hotel

Built in 1922 by Haldane H. Christie, a pioneering auto parts manufacturer who moved to L.A. and became a Hollywood real estate developer, the eight-story Christie Hotel was Hollywood’s first luxury hotel. Its 100-rooms offered a stylish innovation, steam heat, and private baths—the first hotel in Hollywood to do so. Designed by architect Arthur R. Kelley in the Georgian Revival style, the hotel featured steeply pitched gable roofs. In 1945, it was renamed the Drake Hotel and later became the Hollywood Inn.