Ivy Substation

{{Short description|Theatre in Culver City, California, United States}}

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| image = Los Angeles Pacific Company Ivy Park Substation.JPG

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| address = 9070 Venice Boulevard

| city = Culver City, California

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| owner = City of Culver City

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| operator = The Actors' Gang

| capacity = 99

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| opened = 1992

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{{Infobox NRHP

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| name = Los Angeles Pacific Company Ivy Park Substation

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| designated_other1 = LAHCM

| designated_other1_number = 182

| location = 9015 Venice Blvd., Los Angeles, California

| coordinates = {{coord|34|1|34|N|118|23|32|W|display=inline,title}}

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| built = 1907

| architecture = Mission/Spanish Revival

| added = March 25, 1981

| area = {{convert|1.1|acre}}

| refnum = 81000155{{NRISref|version=2010a}}

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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.{{cite web|url={{NRHP url|id=81000155}}|title=Los Angeles Pacific Company Ivy Park Substation|publisher=National Register of Historic Places}}

History

A single-story, rectangular-shaped building in the Mission Revival style,{{Cite book |first1=David |last1=Gebhard |first2=Robert |last2=Winter |title=Los Angeles: An Architectural Guidebook |page=92 |publisher=Gibbs Smith |year=1994 |isbn=0-87905-627-4 |ol=1431202M |url=https://openlibrary.org/books/OL1431202M/Los_Angeles_an_architectural_guide}} it was built in 1907 as a traction substation by the Los Angeles Pacific Railway which subsequently became part of the Pacific Electric railway in 1911.

File:LAP Substation at Ivy.png

Made of brick covered in stucco, the large interior once held old-style rotary mechanical rectifiers to convert very high voltage alternating current (AC) to 600 volt direct current (DC) to operate run cars for serve nearby streetcar and interurban lines: the PE's Venice Short Line, Redondo Beach via Playa del Rey Line, and Santa Monica Air Line.

File:Ivy Station.jpg) and surrounding tracks until 1953.]]

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 early 1990s, the Culver City Redevelopment Agency and the City of Los Angeles renovated the building to use as a community theater by The Actors' Gang.{{citation needed|date=June 2012}}

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.