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Philippe Garnier, a settler from Gap, France, hired Abraham Edelman to design this brick and sandstone building for Chinese tenants. It was the oldest and most significant building of Los Angeles's original Chinatown, which was located here. The building housed many of the city's important Chinese organizations and volunteer associations, including the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association and the Chinese American Citizens Alliance. During the 1950s construction of the Hollywood/Santa Ana Freeway, the southern half of the building was demolished. The middle section was rebuilt with a newly designed arcade on the south. A museum of Chinese American history in Los Angeles was to be installed in one bay of the building.
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