Years of neglect left the Morrison Hotel in disrepair. And just as it was set for a new lease on life, a fire tore through ...

(AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) Vehicles drive past the Morrison Hotel on Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2004, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ric Francis, File) Fire crews battle a building fire on the 1200 block of South ...

The former Morrison Hotel in downtown Los Angeles made famous by the Doors erupted in flames on Thursday morning, sustaining a partial roof collapse and putting the structural integrity in doubt.

Henry Diltz, photographer of the original Morrison Hotel album cover, attends the Day of the ... Sign up for Essential California for news, features and recommendations from the L.A. Times and ...

It was a building immortalized as the album art and title for the Doors’ fifth album. But on Thursday, the former Morrison Hotel — most recently slated to be used for affordable housing ...

A boarded-up former hotel in downtown Los Angeles that was featured on the cover of the 1970 Doors album “Morrison Hotel” was engulfed by a fire Thursday. The fire brought down the building ...

A fire in downtown Los Angeles on Thursday destroyed a historic building that had been immortalized on the cover of the 1970 album "Morrison Hotel," by rock band The Doors. More than 100 ...

The famed hotel is pictured on the cover of The Doors’ 1970 album ... up event at The Original Morrison Hotel at 1246 South Hope Street on January 04, 2020 in Los Angeles, California.

The hotel was the backdrop to the cover of the 1970 album by The Doors of the same name, and in more recent years, was set to be partially demolished and renovated into a luxury hotel. It was ...

A former hotel in downtown L.A. whose name graced a 1970 Doors album — and where the band surreptitiously shot the record’s cover art — was badly burned in a fire Thursday morning ...