Temple Street (Los Angeles)

Temple Street

Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels as seen from Hill Street bridge by Temple Street
West end	Virgil Avenue in Silver Lake 34°04′35″N 118°17′12″W / 34.0763°N 118.2867°W / 34.0763; -118.2867
East end	Center Street in Los Angeles 34°03′00″N 118°13′54″W / 34.0499°N 118.2318°W / 34.0499; -118.2318

Temple Street is a street in the City of Los Angeles, California.^[1] The street is an east-west thoroughfare that runs through Downtown Los Angeles parallel to the Hollywood Freeway between Virgil Avenue past Alameda Street to the banks of the Los Angeles River. It was developed as a simple one-block long lane by Jonathan Temple, a mid-19th Century Los Angeles cattle rancher and merchant.

Originally, Temple began at Main Street, from which Spring Street also began running towards the southwest. The south side of this intersection where the three streets met was called Temple Block, an important retail building in early Los Angeles. In the 1920s and 1930s, Spring Street was rerouted to be parallel with Main Street, so that it intersected Temple one block west of Main Street.