Guaranty Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. 19 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1894.

From the record

“Guaranty Building, also known as Guaranty Building and Loan Association, Hollywood Guaranty Building, Allstate Title Building, and L. Ron Hubbard Life Exhibition Building, is a historic high-rise Beaux Arts office building located at 6331 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.”
Wikipedia article Guaranty Building (Hollywood, California), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 616 National Register listings published here for Los Angeles County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 6331 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, 90028
When was it listed? September 1979
Category. building
Census division. Los Angeles
Architectural style. Beaux-Arts
National Register reference number. 79000481 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Then and now

1894 to 1979

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Guaranty Building, surveyed 1979

Topographic sheet covering Guaranty Building, surveyed 1894

Fires near this property

94 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Guaranty Building between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,021 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	58
Smoking	15
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Arson/incendiarism	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Debris and open burning	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 September 2009	Smoking	1.0 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
30 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
29 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area	EAST FIRE
24 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Los Angeles County Fire Department	not named
21 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
14 September 2016	Smoking	1.0 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
10 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
7 August 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named

Every fire recorded in Los Angeles County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Guaranty Building: 6 past producers, 4 prospects, 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Unnamed Adit	Gold, Copper	Prospect
Unnamed Calcite Occurrence	Calcium	Prospect
Cahuenga	Gold	Prospect
Elysian Park Plant	Clay	Past Producer
Forest Lawn Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
J. Jensen	Clay	Unknown
K & K	Clay	Past Producer
Westlake & Sons	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Westlake and Sons	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Prospect	Sedimentary
Brush Canyon Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Los Angeles County

Storms near this property

9 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hollywood, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2002 and 2026: 5 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 high wind, 1 debris flow. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
February 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Hollywood	-	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down several trees in the Hollywood area.
March 2025	Flash Flood	North Hollywood	-	Strong thunderstorms produced heavy rain and flash flooding in the city of Los Angeles. At the intersection of Highway 101 and Campo de Cahuenga, significant road flooding was reported.
February 2023	Flash Flood	North Hollywood	-	Heavy rainfall generated flash flooding on Highway 101 near Campo de Cahuenga. All lanes of the 101 experienced significant flooding.
August 2023	Flash Flood	North Hollywood	-	Heavy rain generated flash flooding near the community of Burbank. Northbound lanes of Highway 170 were flooded.
December 2023	Debris Flow	West Hollywood	-	A significant mud and debris flow damaged a patio at a residence in Beverly Hills.
September 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Hollywood	-	A severe thunderstorm knocked down seven power poles near Hollywood.
September 2007	Flash Flood	Hollywood	-	California Highway Patrol reported significant flooding at the intersection of Highway 101 and Los Feliz Boulevard.
March 2006	Flash Flood	North Hollywood	-	Heavy rain produced flash flooding in the North Hollywood area. California Highway Patrol reported the car pool lane of SR-170 was closed at Riverside Drive due to flooding.
March 2002	High Wind	Hollywood	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Los Angeles County

Maps showing this location

19 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1894 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:62500
1896 USGS Santa Monica quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Santa Monica quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1901 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
1902 USGS Santa Monica quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1920 USGS Santa Monica quadrangle1:62500
1921 USGS Santa Monica quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1924 USGS Hollywood quadrangle1:24000
1926 USGS Hollywood quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1949 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1953 USGS Hollywood quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1955 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1966 USGS Hollywood quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1966 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1979 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:100000

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Hollywood Palladium	0.2 miles	2016
Engine Co. No. 27	0.2 miles	1985
US Post Office-Hollywood Station	0.2 miles	1985
Security Trust and Savings	0.3 miles	1983
St. Andrews Bungalow Court	0.3 miles	1998
Capitol Tower	0.3 miles	2024

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79000481 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Los Angeles County	All 616 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.