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.
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm. Photographic prints
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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