List of City of Long Beach historic landmarks

This is a List of Long Beach Historic Landmarks. These sites have been designated as historic landmarks in the Long Beach Municipal Code. The City of Long Beach

Long Beach, California

Long Beach is a city situated in Los Angeles County in Southern California, on the Pacific coast of the United States. The city is the 36th-largest city in the nation and the seventh-largest in California. As of 2010, its population was 462,257...

has recognized certain buildings and neighborhoods as having special architectural and historical value. The City Council designates historic landmarks and districts by city ordinance. In total, there are 114 Long Beach Historic Landmarks.

Listing of the Long Beach Historic Landmarks

LBHL #	Landmark name	Address	Description
16.52.010	Jergins Trust Building	Pine Avenue and Ocean Boulevard	Demolished in 1989; formerly a landmark containing a theater, offices, and the Superior Court
16.52.010	Pacific Coast Club	850 East Ocean Blvd.	Demolished in 1989; formerly a private club, designed by Curlett and Beelman in the Chateauesque style, with interior decorations by Heinsbergen
16.52.010	Villa Riviera Villa Riviera Villa Riviera is a registered historic building on Ocean Boulevard in the Alamitos Beach neighborhood of Long Beach, California, USA. From the time of its completion in 1929 through the mid-1950s, it was the second-tallest building, and the tallest private building, in Southern California...	800 E. Ocean Blvd. 33°45′59"N 118°10′54"W	15-story apartment building later converted to condominiums; it was the second tallest building in Southern California when built in 1929
16.52.010	First Congregational Church First Congregational Church (Long Beach, California) First Congregational Church is a church of the United Church of Christ located in downtown Long Beach, California. The church occupies a historic red brick structure that was built in 1914. The Italian Romanesque Revival building has been designated as a Long Beach Historic...	241 Cedar Ave. 33°46′12"N 118°11′43"W	Red brick church built in 1914 in Italian Romanesque Revival style with Gothic rose windows; founded by Jotham and Margaret Bixby
16.52.010	Rancho Los Alamitos Rancho Los Alamitos Rancho Los Alamitos takes its name from a Mexican land grant in southwestern Los Angeles County and northwestern Orange County, California. Los Alamitos means the Little Cottonwoods or Poplars in Spanish, after the native Fremont Cottonwood trees there.Rancho Los Alamitos originally included...	6400 Bixby Hill Rd. 33°46′38"N 118°6′19"W	Adobe house built c. 1806 is one of the oldest in Southern California, also listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the site of the former Puvunga Village
16.52.010	Rancho Los Cerritos Los Cerritos Ranch House Los Cerritos Ranch House, also known as Rancho Los Cerritos or Casa de los Cerritos, in Long Beach, California, was "the largest and most impressive adobe residence erected in southern California during the Mexican period". Los Cerritos means "the little hills" in English...	4600 Virginia Rd. 33°50′22"N 118°11′42"W	Adobe structure on 4.7 acres (19,020.2 m²) site is operated by the city as a historic site; formerly the center of a 27000 acres (109.3 km²) rancho
16.52.020	Cooper Arms Apartments Cooper Arms Apartments Cooper Arms Apartments is a registered historic building located on Ocean Boulevard in downtown Long Beach, California. The twelve-story Renaissance Revival apartment tower was built in 1923...	455 E. Ocean Blvd. 33°46′1"N 118°11′13"W	Twelve-story Renaissance Revival apartment tower built in 1923
16.52.030	Drake Park/Willmore City Historic Landmark District
16.52.040	Long Beach Community Hospital Community Hospital of Long Beach Community Hospital of Long Beach is an acute care hospital in Long Beach, California.-History:Community Hospital of Long Beach was founded in 1924 as Long Beach Community Hospital with 100 beds and 175 surgeons and physicians on staff....	1720 Termino Ave. 33°47′18"N 118°08′42"W	Spanish Colonial Revival Style hospital built 1922-1924 with courtyard patio and fountain centerpiece entered through an arcade
16.52.050	Scottish Rite Cathedral Scottish Rite Cathedral (Long Beach, California) Scottish Rite Cathedral in Long Beach, California, is a Long Beach Historic Landmark. It is a five-story Romanesque Revival structure built for the local Scottish Rite branch of Freemasonry. It was declared a historic landmark in 1980.-Description:...	855 Elm Ave. 33°46′38"N 118°11′16"W	Scottish Rite Freemasonry building designed in Italian Renaissance-Romanesque Revivial style
16.52.060	Insurance Exchange Building Insurance Exchange Building The Insurance Exchange Building, formerly known as the Middough Building and the Middough Brothers Building, is a registered historic building located on Broadway in downtown Long Beach, California, USA. The eight-story Beaux Arts building was one of the largest office buildings in downtown Long...	205 E. Broadway 33°46′9"N 118°11′24"W	Also known as Middough Brothers-Insurance Exchange Building
16.52.070	Recreation Park Golf Course Clubhouse	4900 East 7th St. 33°46′29"N 118°08′06"W	Spanish Coloinal Revival recreation building built in the 1920s
16.52.080	Bembridge House Bembridge House Bembridge House, also known as Green-Rankin-Bembridge House, is a registered historic building located across from Drake Park in Long Beach, California, United States. The ornate and well-preserved Queen Anne Victorian house was built in 1906. Musician and school teacher Dorothy Bembridge lived...	953 Park Circle Dr. 33°46′45"N 118°12′4"W	Also known as Green-Rankin-Bembridge House; Ornate Queen Anne Victorian house built in 1906 with original carriage house and gazebo
16.52.090	Cherry Avenue Lifeguard Station	1 Cherry Ave. (Ocean Blvd. and Cherry Ave.) 33°45′48"N 118°10′05"W	Three-story structure with hexagonal lookout tower built in 1938 as a WPA project; moved to Cherry Ave. in 1961.
16.52.100	William Benjamin Dearborn Simmons Tracker Pipe Organ	5950 Willow St.	Antique organ built in Boston by William Benjamin Dearbon Simmons; purchased and restored in 1975 by Los Altos United Methodist Church
16.52.110	Dr. Rowan Building	201-209 Pine Ave. 33°46′10"N 118°11′32"W	Art Deco commercial structure built in 1930 with terra cotta ornamentation
16.52.120	Long Beach Municipal Auditorium Mural	3rd and Promenade	WPA Mosaic depicting beach recreation; created from 1936-1938 by Stanton MacDonald-Wright, Henry Nord, and Albert Henry King on the facade of the Municipal Auditorium; relocated in 1982 as a freestanding piece at the Promenade and Long Beach Plaza
16.52.130	Heartwell-Lowe House	2505 E. Second St. 33°45′56"N 118°09′44"W	Colonial Revival house built in 1919 for Col. Charles L. Heartwell
16.52.140	St. Regis Building	1030 E. Ocean Blvd. 33°45′56"N 118°10′49"W	Luxurious apartment hotel built in 1920s combining Greek Revival and Renaissance Revival styles
16.52.150	Fire Maintenance Station No. 10	1445 Peterson St.	Oldest fire station in Long Beach; built in 1925 with tall stepped gable; operated in recent years as the Long Beach Firefighter’s Museum
16.52.160	Leonie Pray House Leonie Pray House Leonie Pray House, also known as "Dawson-Pray House," is a Long Beach Historic Landmark located in the Bixby Knolls section of Long Beach, California. It is a English Tudor Revival mansion designed by architect Clarence Aldrich...	4252 Country Club Dr. 33°50′02"N 118°11′47"W	English Tudor Revival house built in 1927; also known as Dawson-Pray House
16.52.170	Skinny House Skinny House (Long Beach) The aptly nicknamed Skinny House at 708 Gladys Avenue in the Rose Park neighborhood of Long Beach, California, United States is a narrow three-story house that has been cited by both the Guinness Book of World Records and Ripley's Believe It or Not as the nation's skinniest house.The...	708 Gladys Ave. 33°46′32"N 118°09′27"W
16.52.180	First National Bank of Long Beach First National Bank of Long Beach The First National Bank building in Long Beach, California is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.The original bank building had three stories, which were surpassed in 1906 with the current building, designed by Los Angeles architects Robert F. Train and Robert E. Williams. The...	101-125 Pine Ave. 33°46′6"N 118°11′30"W	Also known as Enloe Building
16.52.190	Henry Clock House	4242 Pine Ave. 33°50′00"N 118°11′37"W
16.52.200	Artaban Apartments	10 Atlantic Ave. 33°46′00"N 118°11′05"W
16.52.210	Broadlind Hotel	149 Linden Ave. 33°46′08"N 118°11′11"W
16.52.220 and 16.52.540	Masonic Temple Masonic Temple (Long Beach, California) The Masonic Temple at 230 Pine Ave. in Long Beach, California was built in 1903. It is listed on the List of City of Long Beach historic landmarks....	230 Pine Ave. 33°46′11"N 118°11′32"W
16.52.230	Matlock House	1560 Ramillo Ave. 33°47′14"N 118°07′44"W
16.52.240	Moore House	5551 La Pasada St. 33°46′54"N 118°07′30"W
16.52.250	Olan Hafley House	5561 La Pasada St. 33°46′54"N 118°07′29"W
16.52.260	The Willmore	315 W. Third St. 33°46′15"N 118°11′40"W
16.52.270	Lafayette Complex	130-140 Linden Ave. 33°46′07"N 118°11′10"W
16.52.280	Linden House	847 Linden Ave.
16.52.290	Termo Company Building	3275 Cherry Ave.
16.52.300	Home Market Building	942-948 Daisy
16.52.310	Farmers and Merchants Bank Office Tower	320 Pine Ave.
16.52.320	Long Beach Professional Building Long Beach Professional Building The Long Beach Professional Building is a historic medical office building in downtown Long Beach, California added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005....	117 E. 8th St. 33°46′36"N 118°11′32"W
16.52.330	Bixby Ranch House	11 La Linda Drive
16.52.340	The Houser Building	2740-2746 E. Broadway
16.52.350	Harriman-Jones Clinic	211 Cherry Ave
16.52.360	Breakers Hotel Breakers Hotel (Long Beach, California) Breakers Hotel is a landmark 14-story building on Ocean Avenue in downtown Long Beach, California. The building opened in 1926 as a luxury oceanfront resort hotel. The building has gone through multiple changes of ownership and has been renamed at various times the Hilton, the Wilton, and the...	200-220 E. Ocean Blvd.
16.52.370	Ocean Center Building Ocean Center Building The Ocean Center Building is a 14-story, 197-foot-tall office building in downtown Long Beach, California built in 1929 by architect Raymond M...	110 W. Ocean Blvd.	Meyer & Holler Meyer & Holler Meyer & Holler was an architecture firm based in Los Angeles, California noted for its opulent commercial buildings and movie theatres, including Grauman’s Chinese and Egyptian theatres, built during the 1920s... , design by Raymond M. Kennedy Raymond M. Kennedy Raymond McCormick Kennedy was the guiding light and architect of the Grauman's Chinese Theater that opened in May 1927.-Early life:Raymond McCormick Kennedy was born in New Brighton, Pennsylvania in 1891... , 1929
16.52.380	Adelaide M. Tichenor House	852 E. Ocean Blvd.	Greene and Greene Greene and Greene Greene and Greene was an architectural firm established by brothers Charles Sumner Greene and Henry Mather Greene , influential early 20th Century American architects... , 1904
16.52.390	Californian Apartments	325 W. 3rd St.
16.52.400	Crest Apartments	321 Chestnut Ave.
16.52.410	Blackstone Hotel	330 W. Ocean Blvd.
16.52.420	Sovereign Apartments	354-360 W. Ocean Blvd	Also known as The Sovereign
16.52.430	Lord Mayor's Inn (Windham House)	435 Cedar Ave.
16.52.450	Barker Brothers Building	141 E. Broadway; 215 Promenade
16.52.460	Buffums Autoport	119-121 W. 1st St.
16.52.470	Security Pacific National Bank Building	102-110 Pine Ave.
16.52.480	American Hotel	224-230 E. Broadway
16.52.490	Art Deco Building at 312-316 Elm Avenue	312-316 Elm Avenue
16.52.500	First United Presbyterian Church	600 E. Fifth St.
16.52.510	Walkers Department Store	401-423 Pine Ave.
16.52.520	Engine Company No. 8	5365 E. 2nd St.
16.52.530	Golden House	628 W. 10th St.
16.52.550	Pacific Tower	205-215 Long Beach Blvd.
16.52.560	St. Anthony's Church	540 Olive Ave.
16.52.570	St. Luke's Episcopal Church	703 Atlantic Ave.
16.52.580	First Church of Christ Scientist First Church of Christ, Scientist (Long Beach, California) The former First Church of Christ, Scientist is an historic Christian Science church building located at 440 Elm Avenue, Long Beach, California, United States...	440 Elm Ave.	Later First Christian Church
16.52.590	Famous Department Store	601-609 Pine Ave.	Later Rite-Aid
16.52.600	Residence at 453 Cedar Avenue	453 Cedar Avenue
16.52.610	Residence at 629 Atlantic Avenue	629 Atlantic Avenue
16.52.620	Second Church of Christ Scientist Second Church of Christ, Scientist (Long Beach, California) The former Second Church of Christ, Scientist, located at 655 Cedar Avenue, in Long Beach, California, is an historic structure that on April 1, 2005, was added to the National Register of Historic Places...	655 Cedar Ave. 33°44′55"N 118°11′35"W
16.52.630	Christian Outreach Appeal Building	503-515 E. 3rd St.	Also known as First Methodist Episcopal Church
16.52.640	Long Beach Airport Terminal	4100 E. Donald Douglas Dr.
16.52.650	Long Beach Museum of Art Long Beach Museum of Art The Long Beach Museum of Art is a museum located on Ocean Boulevard in the Bluff Park neighborhood of Long Beach, California. The museum occupies the historic 1912 Elizabeth Milbank Anderson house and carriage house and a new two-story pavilion, and includes oceanfront gardens. The museum is open...	2300 E. Ocean Blvd.
16.52.660	Harnett House	730 Sunrise Blvd.
16.52.670	Acres of Books Acres of Books Acres of Books was a large independent bookstore in downtown Long Beach, California....	240 Long Beach Boulevard
16.52.680	Cambridge Building	320 East Bixby Road
16.52.690	Hancock Motors Building	500 E. Anaheim St.
16.52.700	Cheney-Delaney Residence	2642 Chestnut Ave.
16.52.710	James E. Porter Residence	351 Magnolia Ave.
16.52.720	Meeker Building
16.52.730 278	Long Beach Skating Palace	278 Alamitos Ave.
16.52.740	Recreation Park bandshell
16.52.750	Coffee Pot Cafe	955 E. 4th St.	Hexagonal fantasy structure with large coffee pot on roof, formerly known as the Hot Cha Cafe, built in 1932
16.52.760	Chancellor Apartments	1037 E. 1st St.
16.52.770	Kress Building	445-455 Pine Ave.
16.52.780	Gaytonia Apartment Building	212 Quincy Ave.
16.52.790	Masonic Hall Commercial Building	5351-53 Long Beach Blvd.
16.52.800	Art Theater Building	2025 E. 4th St.
16.52.810	Ambassador Apartment Building	35 Alboni Place
16.52.830	Merrill Building	810-812 Long Beach Blvd.
16.52.840	Flossie Lewis House	628 West 10th St.
16.52.860	Pressburg Residence	167 East South St.
16.52.870	El Cordova Apartments (Rose Towers)	1728 E. 3rd St.
16.52.890	Bank of Belmont Shore	5354 E. 2nd St.
16.52.900	Castle Croydon	7th & Orizaba Ave.
16.52.910	Ernest and Lillian McBride Home	1461 Lemon Ave.
16.52.920	Dolly Varden Hotel Rooftop Sign	335 Pacific Ave.
16.52.930	Le Grande Apartments	635 East 9th St.
16.52.940	Silver Bow Apartments	330 Cedar Ave.
16.52.950	Casa Aitken	725 E. 8th St.
16.52.960	St. John's Missionary Baptist Church St. John's Missionary Baptist Church St. John's Missionary Baptist Church is a historic church at 1130 Walt Bellamy Drive in New Bern, North Carolina.It was built in 1926 and added to the National Register in 1997.-References:...	732 E. 10th St.
16.52.970	James C. Beer Residence	1503 E. Ocean Blvd.
16.52.980	Garvey House	1728 East 7th St.
16.52.990	Bay Hotel	318 Elm Ave.
16.52.1000	Ringheim-Wells House	4031 E. 5th St.
16.52.1010	Kale House	853 Linden Ave.
16.52.1020	Foster & Kleiser Building	1428 Magnolia Ave.
16.52.1030	Anna R. Brown Residence	1205 E. Ocean Blvd.
16.52.1040	Butler Residence	251 Junipero Ave.
16.52.1050	Long Beach Unity Church	935 E. Broadway
16.52.1060	Packard Motors Building	205 East Anaheim St.
16.52.1070	American Legion Post No. 560 (Houghton Post) American Legion Post No. 560 (Long Beach, California) The American Legion Post No. 560, in Long Beach, California, is one of 114 City of Long Beach's historic landmarks. Constructed in the 1920s, the building was designated as a historic landmark as the last remaining American Legion post in Long Beach, and due to its association with notable persons...	1215 E. 59th St.
16.52.1080	Phillips House	5917 Lemon Ave.
16.52.1090	1163 Appleton Street House	1163 Appleton Street
16.52.2000	1169-75 Appleton Street House	1169-75 Appleton Street
16.52.2010	Parsonage	640 Pacific Ave.
16.52.2020	Esser House	1001 E. 1st St.
16.52.2030	Sunnyside Cemetery	1095 E. Willow St.

Other Long Beach sites also recognized

The Long Beach Historic Landmarks listed above include many of the most important historic sites in the City of Long Beach. Some others within the City of Long Beach have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places or designated as California Historical Landmarks. These are:

Landmark name	Locality	Description
RMS Queen Mary RMS Queen Mary RMS Queen Mary is a retired ocean liner that sailed primarily in the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967 for the Cunard Line...	Pier J, 1126 Queensway Hwy. 33°45′10"N 118°11′23"W	Art Deco Art Deco Art deco , or deco, is an eclectic artistic and design style that began in Paris in the 1920s and flourished internationally throughout the 1930s, into the World War II era. The style influenced all areas of design, including architecture and interior design, industrial design, fashion and... transatlantic luxury ocean liner built in 1936 in Scotland, fastest ocean liner from 1936 to 1952, extensively gutted and converted for use as a hotel/museum/convention center after being purchased from the Cunard Line Cunard Line Cunard Line is a British-American owned shipping company based at Carnival House in Southampton, England and operated by Carnival UK. It has been a leading operator of passenger ships on the North Atlantic for over a century... in 1967 by Long Beach.
US Post Office-Long Beach Main US Post Office-Long Beach Main US Post Office-Long Beach Main, also known as Long Beach Main Post Office, is a registered historic building located on Long Beach Boulevard in downtown Long Beach, California. The Art Deco WPA Moderne building opened in 1934 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places due to its...	300 Long Beach Blvd. 33°46′22"N 118°11′20"W	Moderne Art Deco Art deco , or deco, is an eclectic artistic and design style that began in Paris in the 1920s and flourished internationally throughout the 1930s, into the World War II era. The style influenced all areas of design, including architecture and interior design, industrial design, fashion and... structure built from 1933-1934 as a project of the Works Progress Administration Works Progress Administration The Works Progress Administration was the largest and most ambitious New Deal agency, employing millions of unskilled workers to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads, and operated large arts, drama, media, and literacy projects...
Jennie A. Reeve House	4260 Country Club Dr. 33°50′3"N 118°11′41"W	Craftsman house designed by Greene & Greene
Puvunga Indian Village Sites Puvunga Puvunga is an ancient village and burial site believed to have once been populated by the Tongva people, who are the indigenous inhabitants of the region around Los Angeles, California...	Address Restricted

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Listing of the Long Beach Historic Landmarks

Other Long Beach sites also recognized

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