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To the north of the Laemmle Building is a Spanish Colonial style building housing the Avalon Hollywood, opened on January 24, 1927, as the Hollywood Playhouse and designed by the architectural firm of H. L. Gogerty and Carl Jules Weyl.

The building's name has changed many times over the 20th century, but was known as the Hollywood Palace for many years before its most recent renaming.