Carroll Park and Rose Park Historic Districts
Since 2001, architectural photographer John Bare has documented numerous historic residential districts throughout Southern California. Today SoCal Landmarks is presenting selections from the Carroll Park and Rose Park Historic Districts of Long Beach. While some of the homes and buildings may be noteworthy on their own, we’re only mentioning one as the goal of John’s documentation, and our presentations, is to provide an overview of the districts and the variety of architectural styles that contribute to their notoriety.
The Rose Park, Rose Park South and Carroll Park neighborhoods “stack” one on top of the other in the south central area of Long Beach. Carroll Park is one of the oldest of Long Beach’s Historic Districts where homes were mostly built between 1898 and 1928. The Rose Park neighborhoods were first established in 1905. Like most of the other real estate developments in the early Alamitos Townsite, the announcement of the coming of the Pacific Electric railway into Long Beach set off a tremendous real estate boom along the proposed rail lines. While many architectural styles can be found in the areas, Craftsman, Craftsman Bungalow and California Bungalow are predominant. Other styles include Colonial Revival, Mediterranean, Prairie/Mission Revival, Ranch and Neo-Traditional.
Long Beach, Los Angeles County
Photographer: John Bare