Chancellor Apartments (Long Beach, California)

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1037 E 1st St
Long Beach, CA 90802

An apartment house masquerading as a Georgian Revival mansion, it is an excellent and impressive example of Georgian Revival architecture, a style used more commonly on single-family houses than for apartments. This style contains classical revival detailing, such as the semicircular portico with columns and entablature, dentils, dormer pedimented roofs, and entry door. The curved fanlight and Queen Anne windows in the dormers are also typical of this style. Nationally, the Colonial Revival style, of which the Georgian tradition is part, was the dominant fashion for homes in the first half of the 20th century. In Southern California it appears less commonly, superseded by locally popular styles such as the Craftsman and the Spanish Colonial Revival. The Chancellor Apartments mix in some local traditions, using a terra cotta tile roof from the Spanish Colonial Revival style.

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