Western Station is rooted in the story of where Los Angeles started and where it is going.
From Trains & Street Cars To Automobiles
Back when the city began taking shape, the country’s car culture was also budding. Making room for the country’s newfound love for the shiny Fords, Packards, and Buicks of the era, Los Angeles began to build wider boulevards and the first freeways connecting the city core to the burgeoning cluster of suburban towns dotting the region’s basin.
An Art Deco Original – Est. 1931
Built in 1931, Western Station’s parking garage was initially part of the Pellissier Office Building Complex, its shops, and theater – now known as the Wiltern Theatre a few blocks north on Wilshire Boulevard.
Designed by Stiles Oliver Clements, partner in the city’s earliest architecture firm, he also gave us the historic Art Deco landmarks of the Eastern Building, the Mayan Theater, and the Richfield Tower (now demolished) reflective of his training from the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
Always At Your Service
At the street level, the Pellessier’s parking structure housed a 24-hour service station that tended round the clock to the automobiles of upwardly climbing young professionals seeking their fortunes in the city and the vaudeville patrons of the Wiltern just a few blocks north on Wilshire.
For The Movers & Shakers of the Past, Present & Future
The people that built LA had a vision for growth that continues to this day. Honoring their creative contributions, we’ve preserved the original Art Deco facade of the parking structure. Adapting the historic service station at street level and the floor above into retail for the neighborhood, with two levels of parking, and a lush garden pool deck on the new rooftop for residents – we carry forward the original commitment to service.
Together with the new ground up building next door housing even more retail, studios, apartments and suite of inspiring environments, we’re creating a lifestyle focused on daily wellbeing for all those who call Western Station their home.
