Allen Block
In 1880, Downtown Los Angeles was centered at the southern end of the Los Angeles Plaza area. Through the beginning of the 20th century, it extended south and west along Main Street, Spring Street, and Broadway towards Third Street. Most of the 19th-century buildings no longer exist, surviving only in the Plaza area or south of Second Street. The rest were demolished to make way for the Civic Center district with City Hall, numerous courthouses, and other municipal, county, state and federal buildings, and Times Mirror Square.
During the late 19th century, the area was referred to as the business center, business section or business district. By 1910, it was referred to as the "North End" of the business district, which by then had expanded south to what is today called the Historic Core, along Broadway, Spring and Main roughly from 3rd to 9th streets.
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