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Order Number	00077193
Title	Pine Avenue and 1st Street, Long Beach
Collection ID	Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Location/Accession	Long Beach-Streets-Pine Avenue and 1st; N-003-266 8x10
Date	[ca. 1937]
Physical Description	1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Notes	Title supplied by cataloger.
Historical Data	The Metropolitan Building, National Register of Historic Places no. 1990001432, was designed by Los Angeles architects Robert F. Train and Robert E. Williams in 1906. The clock tower with its six-foot-diameter clock face was added in 1907. The structure is in French Renaissance Revival style and utilizes pressed yellow brick on the street sides and common red brick on the remaining two sides. The Security Trust and Savings Bank building, known as the Security Pacific National Bank Building, is Long Beach Historic Landmark no. 16.52.470. Built between 1923 and 1925, it was designed by architects Curlett and Beelman., it is a classic Beaux Arts building. Divided into three parts of base, midsection, and attic, it is faced in contrasting light marble and dark red brick and crowned with a classical cornice. The three-story base has a recessed entryway behind giant Corinthian columns. The ornament is classically derived.
Description	First Street in Long Beach looking east past Pine Avenue. As the sign indicates, the Metropolitan Building with its clock tower, corner of 1st Street and Pine Avenue, is home to the California National Bank of Long Beach. Next to the bank is a hotel. Behind the Metropolitan Building is the tall Security Trust and Savings Bank building.
Subject	California National Bank of Long Beach. Security-First National Bank of Los Angeles. Commercial buildings--California--Long Beach. Bank buildings--California--Long Beach. Streets--California--Long Beach. Hotels--California--Long Beach. Clock towers--California--Long Beach. Williams, Robert Edmund. Train, Robert F. Pine Avenue (Long Beach, Calif.). Long Beach (Calif.). National Register of Historic Places. Curlett & Beelman.
Format	Photographic prints
Reproduction Information	Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Sub-Collection Name	Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection