The Max Factor building on Highland Ave in Hollywood, just south of Hollywood Boulevard, is one of the few original buildings from the 1930s that remains as gorgeous now as it was back then. (It now holds the Hollywood Museum.) But it wasn’t Max Factor’s original plan. This photo shows us what Factor originally had in mind – a much larger building. But apparently the financial constraints dictated by the Great Depression forced him to rethink and scale down.

See this post for a shot of how the Max Factor building looked when it opened in 1935.

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