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Title
Long Beach City Hall
Alternative Title
Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
Circa 1928
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
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Description
Title supplied by cataloger.
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.
The Long Beach City Hall is decorated with buntings above the entrance and over the windows on the first and second floor. Striped awnings cover the windows on the ground floor and cars are parked fender to fender in front of the building. The eight story brick building has four cupolas, a porticoed entrance and faces Pacific Avenue. A tow truck from Soynes Garage is double parked in front of the entrance.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00077153
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Long Beach-Buildings-City Hall; N-004-551.1 8x10
CARL0000080847
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/112056
Subject
Long Beach City Hall (Long Beach, Calif.)
City halls--California--Long Beach
Public buildings--California--Long Beach
Austin, W. Horace
Lochridge, Harvey H
Long Beach (Calif.)

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