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Operator
  
NRHP Reference #
  
81000155

Capacity
  
99

Opened
  
1992

Added to NRHP
  
25 March 1981

Built
  
1907

LAHCM #
  
182

Area
  
4,500 m²

Owner
  
Culver City

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Address
  
9070 Venice BoulevardCulver City, California

Location
  
9015 Venice Blvd., Los Angeles, California

Architectural style
  
Mission Revival architecture

Similar
  
Kirk Douglas Theatre, Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, Open Fist Theatre Company, The Fountain Theatre, Theatricum Botanicum

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Ivy Substation (also known as the Ivy Park Substation or Culver Substation) is a 99-seat theatre in Culver City, California which formerly housed power equipment for the nearby electric railways and Ivy station. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.

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History

A single story, rectangular shaped building in the Mission Revival style, it was built in 1907 as a traction substation by Los Angeles Pacific Railway which subsequently became part of the Pacific Electric railway in 1911. Made of brick covered in stucco, the large interior once held old style rotary mechanical rectifiers to convert alternating current (AC) to direct current (DC) to serve nearby streetcar and interurban lines: the Venice Short Line, Redondo Beach via Playa del Rey Line, and Santa Monica Air Line.

It remained in service until 1953. The old equipment was removed and the building was purchased by the City of Los Angeles - but sat vacant for many years. In the 1990s, the Culver City Redevelopment Agency and the City of Los Angeles renovated the building to use as a community theater by the The Actors' Gang.

The building was listed in the National Register of Historic Places because of its association with the transportation history of Los Angeles as well as for its architecture.

References

Ivy Substation Wikipedia


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