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Order Number
00077147
Title
Long
Beach
civic
center
Collection ID
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Location/Accession
Long
Beach-Buildings
;
G-001-623
4x5
Date
Circa
1923
Physical Description
1
photographic
print
:b&w
;21
x
26
cm
.
Notes
Title
supplied
by
cataloger
.
Historical Data
In
1920
,
Long
Beach
commissioned
W
.
Horace
Austin
and his
former
partner
,
civil
engineer
Harvey
H
.
Lochridge
, to
design
a
new
city
hall
. The
eight
story
classical
building
had
four
domed
towers
and was
completed
in
1923
.
It
sustained
some
damage
in the
1933
earthquake
and was
remodeled
by
Cecil
Schilling
and
engineer
C
.
D
.
Walles
with
Art
Deco
details
in
1933-34
.
Description
An
aerial
view
of
Long
Beach
civic
center
by
Lincoln
Park
. The
eight
story
city
hall
with
four
cupolas
and a
porticoed
entrance
faces
Pacific
Avenue
.
Cars
,
some
two
deep
, are
parked
on
all
sides
of
Pacific
Avenue
as
all
streets
feeding
into
Broadway
,
including
Pacific
, are
blocked
due
to
on-going
street
construction
. The
old
,
two
story
city
hall
building
sits
across
the
street
from the
new
structure
and
faces
the
park
.
Among
the
businesses
around
the
civic
center
are
hotels
,
apartments
,
rooming
houses
;
Buffums
'
department
store
,
Sam
Seelig
,
Federal
Tires
, and
banks
.
Subject
Long Beach City Hall (Long Beach, Calif.).
City halls--California--Long Beach.
Public buildings--California--Long Beach.
Commercial strips--California--Long Beach.
Roads--California--Long Beach--Design and construction.
Parks--California--Long Beach.
Aerial photographs.
Austin, W. Horace.
Lochridge, Harvey H.
Long Beach (Calif.).
Long Beach (Calif.)--Aerial views.
Lincoln Park (Long Beach, Calif.).
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
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