Engine Company No. 8
The Belmont Fire and Police substation was designed in a Renaissance Revival style and built by the firm of Parker Wright and Francis Gentry who were responsible for several buildings in the Belmont Shore area of Long Beach. The fire station, commonly known as Engine Company No. 8, remains an active station since it opened on August 1, 1929. The adjacent police substation opened the following year. Online sources don’t provide a complete timeline of the police substation, but it served as the Long Beach Museum of Art’s Video Annex until the late 1990s. City Council records indicate that a lease to the Long Beach Police Historical Society was authorized in early 2006, but the Society doesn’t mention it. Numerous contemporary online notices indicate that the building is now being used as a meeting space. Engine Company No. 8 is a Long Beach Historic Landmark.
Belmont Shore, Long Beach, Los Angeles County
Photographer: Andrew Schmidt