Heinsbergen Decorating Company Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. 19 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1894.

From the record

“The Heinsbergen Decorating Company Building, also known as the AT Heinsbergen & Company Building, is a historic building on Beverly Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.”
Wikipedia article Heinsbergen Decorating Company Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 616 National Register listings published here for Los Angeles County · listed in 1984 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 7415 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, 90036
When was it listed? September 1984
Category. building
Census division. Los Angeles
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
Architect. William and Alexander Curlett
National Register reference number. 84000873 - 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 Heinsbergen Decorating Company Building, surveyed 1979

Topographic sheet covering Heinsbergen Decorating Company Building, surveyed 1894

Fires near this property

95 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Heinsbergen Decorating Company Building between 1995 and 2020, burning about 237 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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	56
Smoking	11
Arson/incendiarism	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Debris and open burning	3

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
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
18 September 1995	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area	FRANKLIN
10 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
30 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
3 August 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area	FRYMAN
26 August 2009	Smoking	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
23 August 2011	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Los Angeles County Fire Department	not named

Every fire recorded in Los Angeles County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Heinsbergen Decorating Company Building: 3 prospects, 2 unknowns, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Calcium. 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
Forest Lawn Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
J. Jensen	Clay	Unknown
Unnamed Adit	Gold, Copper	Prospect
Unnamed Calcite Occurrence	Calcium	Prospect
Brush Canyon Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Cahuenga	Gold	Prospect
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown

Every working recorded in Los Angeles County

Storms near this property

8 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Los Angeles, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2000 and 2026: 3 flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 high wind, 1 tornado. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
March 2023	Tornado (EF1)	East Los Angeles	1 hurt	A weak tornado developed in the community of Montebello. The EF1 tornado impacted the area around the intersection of Washington Boulevard and Maple Avenue. There was substantial damage to the industrial warehouse and commercial business district, including nearly total roof collapse in one building and a total of 17 damaged structures. Numerous vehicles were damaged due to flying debris.
February 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Los Angeles	1 hurt	no account filed
February 2026	Flood	Los Angeles	-	Heavy rain produced significant roadway flooding on Interstate 110 near West 39th Street.
February 2026	Flash Flood	Los Angeles	-	Heavy rainfall generated flash flooding near the intersection of Interstates 10 and 110.
February 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Los Angeles	-	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down several trees in the South Los Angeles area.
March 2002	High Wind	Los Angeles	-	no account filed
February 2000	Flood	Los Angeles	-	no account filed
April 2000	Flood	Los Angeles	-	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
Beverly Fairfax Historic District	0.4 miles	2018
Citrus Square Historic District	0.6 miles	2024
Miracle Mile Apartments Historic District	0.8 miles	2022
El Greco Apartment	0.9 miles	1988
Security-First National Bank of Los Angeles	1.1 miles	2005
John C. Fremont Branch	1.1 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84000873 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.