National Headquarters

Considering the long trend of razing older buildings in cities all over the country, the Screen Actors Guild is fortunate in that each of the five previous structures that housed our National Headquarters, beginning in 1933, may still be seen today, generally with little external change, in and near Hollywood – from the first home in the Hollywood Center building, where the Guild started with one employee in one small office off a long, narrow corridor, through the former Hollywood Congregational Church. All have been sites of creation, innovation, frustration, cooperation and conflict, hilarity and sadness, victory and defeat. They remain visual reminders of the growth and change of the Screen Actors Guild over more than 70 years.