Hacienda Arms Apartments, Renaissance Revival apartment building on Sunset Strip, West Hollywood, United States

The Hacienda Arms Apartments is a four-story, 52,000-square-foot building on the Sunset Strip, designed in an Italian Renaissance Revival style described as reminiscent of a classic Italian villa. Its ornamented cream-and-tan plaster facade has a grand entrance stairway and fountain, cast-stone decorations and an arched entryway, and the interior keeps original antique Italian marble, stonework, plaster and wrought iron.

Built in 1927 for $382,000 as the Hacienda Arms Apartments, the building housed actors such as Marie Dressler, Loretta Young and Jeanette MacDonald. In the 1930s it became the House of Francis, run by madam Lee Francis, and in 1940 she was convicted of operating a house of ill repute. After decades of decline and a suspicious 1983 fire, the Los Angeles Conservancy secured its listing on the National Register in December 1983.

The building's name changed with its uses: Hacienda Arms in 1927, Coronet Apartments when Ciro's nightclub opened next door in 1940, and Piazza del Sol since 1986. Today the restaurant Katana, co-owned by Ryan Seacrest and Tori Spelling, operates on the premises alongside production company offices.

The building stands at 8439 Sunset Boulevard, next to the former site of Ciro's nightclub, which opened in 1940. The Katana restaurant operates on the premises, so the facade and entrance stairway can be seen while stopping there. The address is on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, within walking distance of the strip's other nightlife venues.

In 1940 madam Lee Francis was arrested in a raid and convicted of running a house of ill repute; she told the officer, "You are a sly one you are. In 31 years in business, this is the first time anyone ever got me." MGM reportedly kept a charge account there under an assumed name.