# Herman Building

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{{Short description|Building in Los Angeles, California, U.S.}}
{{Use American English|date=September 2025}}
{{Infobox NRHP
| name                     = Herman Building
| nocat                    = yes
| nrhp_type                = cp
| partof                   = Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District
| partof_refnum            = 85000704
| image                    = Herman building hollywood.jpg
| image_size = 
| caption                  = The building in 2024
| location = 1632 N. Vine St., [Hollywood, California](/source/Hollywood%2C_California) 
| coordinates = {{coord|34.101|-118.326|type:landmark|display=inline,title}}
| locmapin = Los Angeles 
| map_caption = Location of building in [Los Angeles County](/source/Los_Angeles_County)
| built                    = 1928
| architect                = [Carl Jules Weyl](/source/Carl_Jules_Weyl)
| architecture             = [Spanish Colonial Revival](/source/Spanish_Colonial_Revival)
| designated_nrhp_type     = April 4, 1985
}}

'''Herman Building''', also known as '''Bernard Luggage Building''', is a historic one-story building located at 1632 N. [Vine Street](/source/Vine_Street) in [Hollywood, California](/source/Hollywood%2C_California).

== History ==
Herman Building was built in 1928 by [Carl Jules Weyl](/source/Carl_Jules_Weyl)<ref name=NRHS1>{{Cite web |title=Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District |url=https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/236d3254-47ee-4b31-9045-c2999cc465f2/ |publisher=[United States Department of the Interior](/source/United_States_Department_of_the_Interior) - [National Park Service](/source/National_Park_Service) |date=April 4, 1985 |language=en-US}}</ref> and has been home to many businesses over the years, most notably a restaurant in the 1940s-1950s called Ham & Egger. [Johnny Grant](/source/Johnny_Grant_(radio_personality)) broadcast a live radio show from the restaurant, where he interviewed numerous celebrities, including [Bob Hope](/source/Bob_Hope), [Jimmy Durante](/source/Jimmy_Durante), and [Alan Young](/source/Alan_Young). In the 1950s, [Bernard Luggage Company](/source/Bernard_Luggage_Company) moved into the building, and the company's owners purchased the building twenty years later.<ref name="waterandpower6">{{Cite web |title=Early Views of Hollywood (1920 +) |url=https://waterandpower.org/museum/Early_Views_of_Hollywood_(1920_+)_6_of_12.html |page=6 |publisher=[Water and Power Associates](/source/Water_and_Power_Associates) |access-date=July 25, 2024}}</ref>

In 1984, the [Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District](/source/Hollywood_Boulevard_Commercial_and_Entertainment_District) was added to the [National Register of Historic Places](/source/National_Register_of_Historic_Places), with 1632 N. Vine St. listed as a [contributing property](/source/contributing_property) in the district.<ref name=NRHS1/> In the 2000s, when the city sought to develop the area into a [W Hotel & Residences](/source/W_Hotels), the Herman Building's owner refused to sell. The city attempted to take the building by [eminent domain](/source/eminent_domain), but lost their case. W Hotel was then built around Herman Building, which was reconstructed and restored to its original look.<ref name="waterandpower6"/><ref>{{cite web |title=W Hollywood Celebrates Milestone |url=https://www.nbclosangeles.com/local/w-hollywood-celebrates-milestone/1848353/ |publisher=[NBC Los Angeles](/source/NBC_Los_Angeles) |date=January 26, 2009}}</ref>

==Architecture and design==
Herman Building features a [Spanish Colonial Revival](/source/Spanish_Colonial_Revival) design that includes a false [gable](/source/gable) parallel to the street as its [focal point](/source/Focus_(optics)) and [Churrigueresque](/source/Churrigueresque) ornament
along the edge of the gable. The building was compatible with [Hollywood Brown Derby](/source/Hollywood_Brown_Derby) to its south.<ref name=NRHS1/>

==See also==
* [List of contributing properties in the Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District](/source/List_of_contributing_properties_in_the_Hollywood_Boulevard_Commercial_and_Entertainment_District)

==References==
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{{Greater Hollywood}}
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Category:Commercial buildings completed in 1928
Category:1920s architecture in the United States
Category:Revival architecture in the United States
Category:Buildings and structures in Hollywood, Los Angeles
Category:Buildings and structures in Los Angeles
Category:Historic district contributing properties in California

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