The Culver Hotel (Curlett and Beelman, architects) opened in 1924, to September 4 headlines in the Culver City Daily News, "City Packed with Visitors for Opening of Culver Skyscraper."  Six stories back then was a skyscraper.  It was the brainchild of city's founder, Harry Culver, and his second floor office here has been restored.  Curlett and Beelman, by the way, also designed the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel on Hollywood Boulevard.  This wedge-shaped thing is concrete and brick with mahogany and walnut interiors.

It has its history - you see it in Laurel and Hardy shorts like Putting Pants on Philip (1927) and in a lot of the Our Gang shorts Hal Roach pumped out - and Red Skelton, Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Greta Garbo, and Ronald Reagan maintained part-time residences here.  And short people stayed here too - it was the home of the "Munchkins" when The Wizard of Oz was being filmed a few blocks west at MGM in the late thirties.  There's a restaurant on the ground floor here now, called Munchkins.  Cute.  The hotel was once owned by John Wayne, who eventually donated it to the Los Angeles YMCA.  It was repurchased and restored in the nineties, and became a hotel again.

It has interesting detail.