The Park Plaza Hotel isn’t a functioning hotel, but the decadent Neo-Gothic structure on L.A.’s MacArthur Park has recently seen a new burst of life.

Completed in 1925 by renowned Art Deco architect Claud Beelman for a charitable professional association known as the Benevolent Order of the Elks, the building became a luxury hotel in the 1930s. Its indoor swimming pool held a number of events during the 1932 Olympics, and the hotel remained a linchpin of the wealthy Mid-Wilshire neighborhood until that area’s steady decline in the 1950s.

The building is now vacant, used for movie shoots, weddings, and other events–but visitors can walk into the towering ornate lobby, ogle at a massive gilded chandelier, and the vast carpeted steps leading to a wrought-iron lobby gate. The telephone rooms and wood-paneled bar are all gorgeous relics to a bygone era, built by Hollywood dollars and used now only for Hollywood celluloid.

Even so, more events have been hosted at the Park Plaza in recent years, since Angelenos have turned to downtown and the inner city, and begun to appreciate the city’s historic architecture. On New Years Eve, AOK and IAMSOUND hosted a blowout party in the hotel’s upper floors featuring djs Classixx and electronic indie band Blood Orange. Located next door to LACMA’s Charles White Elementary School Gallery and the Ashes/Ashes art project, the Park Plaza may soon retake its place in the sun.