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Title: First Methodist Episcopal Church, Long Beach
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 194-?
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
A cross is embedded above the entrance to the First Methodist Episcopal Church at Third Street and Linden in Long Beach. The two-story, brick building is in the neoclassical style and has pilasters framing arched windows on each side that are topped with a pediment. Notices are posted on the pilasters on either side of the plain door facing the street corner. Two sailors are passing a parking meter as they walk down the street. The trees are newly planted and a one-way sign is posted below the traffic signal. The church was designed by architects, Parker O. Wright and Francis H. Gentry and built in 1924.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00077168
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Long Beach-Churches
CARL0000080977
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/112684
Subject: First Methodist Episcopal Church (Long Beach, Calif.)
Church buildings--California--Long Beach
Methodist church buildings--California--Long Beach
Neoclassicism (Architecture)--California--Long Beach
Wright, Parker O
Gentry, Francis H
Long Beach (Calif.)

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