Metropolitan Building, Commercial building in Los Angeles, United States.

The Metropolitan Building occupies the corner of West 5th Street and South Broadway in Los Angeles. It features marble interior elements and ornamental elevator doors, with retail spaces on the ground floor and residential lofts above.

The building was completed in 1913, replacing the Mueller Building that previously occupied the site. Its construction helped establish Broadway as Los Angeles's largest shopping district.

The building's name comes from the Metropolitan Fireproof Building Company, which obtained the 1913 permits to demolish the Mueller Building and erect a ten-story structure for stores and offices. The Muellers and their descendants kept ownership of the property until the mid-1980s.

The building stands at the southwest corner of West 5th Street and South Broadway, in the Broadway Commercial and Entertainment Historic District. Walk the surrounding blocks to compare it with four other Parkinson & Bergstrom buildings nearby: the Trustee Building, Yorkshire Hotel, Bullock's Building and Broadway Mart Center. The Beaux-Arts detailing is best read from the opposite corners of the intersection.

The Metropolitan Building was designed by the partnership of John Parkinson and Edwin Bergstrom, who worked together from 1905 to 1915 and completed more than 25 buildings in Los Angeles during that decade. Bergstrom later served as chief architect for the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., from 1941 to 1943. Four other Parkinson & Bergstrom buildings stand within the same historic district: the Trustee Building, the Yorkshire Hotel, Bullock's Building and Broadway Mart Center.