Subway Terminal Building

Subway Terminal Building
Subway Terminal Building, 2008
General information
Location	417, 415, 425 S. Hill St., 416, 420 424 S. Olive St Los Angeles, California
Coordinates	34°03′00″N 118°15′03″W / 34.0498689°N 118.2509694°W / 34.0498689; -118.2509694
Tracks	5 (subway)
History
Opened	December 1, 1925 (December 1, 1925)
Closed	June 19, 1955 (June 19, 1955)
Former services Preceding station Pacific Electric Following station Subway Terminal Edendale towards Burbank or North Glendale Glendale–Burbank Terminus Sunset Junction towards San Fernando San Fernando Sunset Junction towards Beverly Hills or Garnder Junction Hollywood Sunset Junction towards Canoga Park Owensmouth Sunset Junction towards West Hollywood Sherman Hill Street station Vineyard towards Santa Monica Westgate Terminus Sawtelle Vineyard towards Rustic Canyon Venice Short Line Vineyard towards Clifton Redondo Beach via Playa del Rey
Subway Terminal Building
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 177
Architectural style	Italian Renaissance Revival
NRHP reference No.	06000657
LAHCM No.	177
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	August 2, 2006
Designated LAHCM	July 27, 1977
Track layout Legend Surface Hill Street Subway Hollywood Subway Source[1] This diagram: view talk edit

The historic Subway Terminal, now Metro 417, opened in 1925 at 417 South Hill Street near Pershing Square, in the core of Los Angeles as the second, main train station of the Pacific Electric Railway; it served passengers boarding trains for the west and north of Southern California through a mile-long shortcut under Bunker Hill popularly called the "Hollywood Subway," but officially known as the Belmont Tunnel. The station served alongside the Pacific Electric Building at 6th & Main, which opened in 1905 to serve lines to the south and east. The Subway Terminal was designed by Schultze and Weaver in an Italian Renaissance Revival style, and the station itself lay underground below offices of the upper floors, since repurposed into the Metro 417 luxury apartments. When the underground Red Line was built, the new Pershing Square station was cut north under Hill Street alongside the Terminal building, divided from the Subway's east end by just a retaining wall. At its peak in the 20th century, the Subway Terminal served upwards of 20 million passengers a year.