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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 has recognized certain buildings and neighborhoods as having special architectural and historical value. The City Council designates historic landmarks and districts by city ordinance.
Villa Riviera is a registered historic building on Ocean Boulevard in the Alamitos Beach neighborhood of Long Beach, California, United States. The building was an "own-your-own" apartment building and each unit was sold fully furnished. In those days, Apartment-Hotels were apartment buildings featuring full service hotel amenities.
Pages in category "Landmarks in Long Beach, California" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Breakers Hotel was developed by a local Long Beach banker and capitalist, Fred B. Dunn. [4] Construction began in fall 1925, with a projected cost of $2,250,000. [4] The original structure consisted of a single-story base that spanned an entire city block with a central tower rising thirteen stories above the main body of the building.
The University Hotel in Greenwich Village collapsed in 1973. March 27, 1981: The Harbour Cay Condominium building in Cocoa Beach, Fla., east of Orlando, collapsed hours before construction was ...
The motel at 141 Long Beach Ave. first opened in 1951. The original owner, Henry de la Pena, named the motel after the U.S. Navy ship he served on in World War II. He left the Navy in 1947 and was ...
The amusement zone surrounding the Pike, Silver Spray Pier, was included along with additional parking in the post-World War II expansion; it was all renamed Nu-Pike via a contest winner's submission in the late 1950s, then renamed Queen's Park in the late 1960s in homage to the arrival of the Queen Mary ocean liner in Long Beach. 1979 was the ...
11:52 a.m. Los Angeles County sent the first evacuation orders to a swath of the Palisades: "LEAVE NOW." Around noon. More than 7,500 miles away in Accra, Ghana, where it was around 8 p.m., Los ...