Hotel Stowell, later El Dorado Hotel and El Dorado Lofts, is a historic building located at 416 S. Spring Street in downtown Los Angeles, California.
History Hotel Stowell was designed by Frederick Buckley Noonan for Nathan Wilson Stowell and built for about $400,000 in 1913 . The hotel was the first in downtown Los Angeles to feature a bath with every room. Charlie Chaplin once lived in the building and rooms ranged from $1.50 to $2.50 per night.
Decades after opening, Stowell Hotel had devolved into a flophouse named El Dorado Hotel. In 1979, the Spring Street Financial District was added to the National Register of Historic Places, with El Dorado Hotel listed as a contributing property in the district.
From 2008 to 2011, the building was converted into a 65-unit condominium complex and renamed El Dorado Lofts; it also underwent a seismic retrofit. The total cost of the conversion was $25.7 million .
In 2013, the building was declared Los Angeles Historic Cultural Monument No. 1029. A French brasserie opened in the building's lobby in 2015.
Architecture and design Hotel Stowell is a twelve-story reinforced concrete building faced with terra cotta and enameled brick. The building features a Art Nouveau/Gothic Revival design with a brightly colored facade. Two neon signs extend from the second to tenth floors.
Inside, the building's former lobby features Ernest Batchelder tiles.
See also List of contributing properties in the Spring Street Financial District
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