This was a Jewish synagogue on the northeast corner of 9th and Hope Streets in downtown Los Angeles. This photo is from 1926. The synagogue was built in 1896, replacing L.A.’s first synagogue at 214 Fort Street. This building lasted until 1927 – not a long life – when it was demolished. (The Temple B’nai B’rith moved to its present home on Wilshire Boulevard in 1929, rechristened as the Wilshire Boulevard Temple.) L.A. is a buffet of architectural styles, but we don’t see many onion domed buildings. It’s a shame this striking building hasn’t been allowed to remain with us.
A remnant of the red sandstone temple is displayed on the central path at Home of Peace cemetery in East Los Angeles. https://www.facebook.com/esotouricbusadventures/posts/10158806988729596
That same corner in April 2019. The building is so tall that it was impossible to get the whole thing in the frame!
In 1929 the Temple moved to 3663 Wilshire Boulevard and became known as The Wilshire Boulevard Temple, where it remains. The Hope Street temple, sold to a private developer in 1927, was immediately demolished. Despite relatively intensive development in the surrounding blocks, its footprint has remained as a parking lot for over eight decades.
A small point, but the contemporary photo of the intersection shows the northwest corner. The temple was on the northeast corner. It was long a parking lot, but there is a building there now, built recently.