Casa de la Cultura de Long Beach (Long Beach, California)

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629 Atlantic Ave.
Long Beach, CA 90249
(562) 438-1134

This large, late-Victorian residential structure is a visible reminder of an earlier period in Long Beach's history, when Atlantic Avenue was lined with large single-family residential homes. The homes built in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have been replaced by commercial structures and multifamily building as the street developed into a primary business corridor. This is one of the only structures to survive on Atlantic from the first residential phase of the street's history. Built in 1906, it is one of a number of similar buildings of the period downtown that formed Long Beach's first residential district. Thus, it is linked in architectural style and historical period with other similar residential structures which have survived over time, evoking the character and the geography of the first phase of Long Beach's residential development. This building has been a prominent part of the streetscape of a major Long Beach street since the early twentieth century, and has become even more unique over time as the street has developed with new construction around it. Today, its Victorian architecture is an established and familiar feature of the street and is unique in its linkage to the past.

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