Hazard's Pavilion, Multi-purpose concert hall and theatre in downtown Los Angeles, US.
Hazard's Pavilion stood at the intersection of Fifth and Olive Streets, built of wood with a clapboard exterior and a front framed by two towers. Architects Kysor, Morgan & Walls completed it in 1887 at a cost of $25,000. It seated up to 4,000 people, divided into two galleries, and was the largest building of its type in Los Angeles at the time.
The pavilion was constructed in 1887 by architects Kysor, Morgan & Walls for Henry T. Hazard, a prominent lawyer who later became Mayor of Los Angeles. The building shaped the city's entertainment scene for the next two decades before transitioning to other uses.
The pavilion hosted religious revivals, including an 1888 series by evangelist Dwight L. Moody that Harry A. Ironside attended, setting him on his own preaching path. Speakers ranged from Booker T. Washington and William Jennings Bryan to temperance advocate Carrie Nation, and Enrico Caruso sang there. From 1901 to 1904 promoter Tom McCarey staged boxing cards with Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries.
The pavilion stood at the intersection of Fifth and Olive Streets, facing Pershing Square; the site has been a parking lot for decades. In 2014 MacFarlane Partners announced the Park Fifth development, and a smaller 24-storey apartment complex renamed Five-Oh was under construction there as of 2017. An outdoor paseo with tables, chairs and lighting was planned between the new complex and the Subway Terminal Building, now the Metro 417 apartments.
The site is now a parking lot where the Five-Oh apartment tower was under construction as of 2017. Earlier, the 1906 Temple Auditorium that replaced the pavilion had the only cantilevered balcony in the world and the largest stage west of New York.
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