Bumiller Building, Theatre and architectural structure in Broadway Theater District, Los Angeles, US.
The Bumiller Building is a six-story reinforced concrete structure in the Renaissance Revival style, designed by Morgan & Walls and completed in 1906. Its facade, which gave the Jade Theater its name, is clad in jade-hued material, and the building stands in the Los Angeles Historic Broadway Theater District.
Morgan, Walls & Clements designed this structure in 1906, with the first three floors and basement originally housing the Bon Marché department store. The building underwent several transformations and changes in use afterward.
The building served as the Eden Musée theater, where moviegoers and audiences enjoyed vaudeville performances throughout the day and evening. This venue brought together different forms of entertainment under one roof for the public to experience.
The Bumiller Building now holds 58 rental apartments under the name Broadway Lofts, so the interior is closed to visitors. The facade can be seen from the public sidewalk along South Broadway in the Historic Broadway Theater District. The renovation and adaptive reuse were carried out by the Los Angeles firm Omgivning.
The structure was the site of an unusual episode in 1921 when firefighters responded to an explosion caused by a hidden illegal whiskey still in the basement during Prohibition. This incident reveals the hidden illegal operations that took place in the city during that era.
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