A Photography Project
The Colonial Revival style Heartwell-Lowe House was built in the Bluff Park area of Long Beach in 1919. The 2-story, 2,366 sq ft house was the home of Col. Charles L. Heartwell, who played a leading role in the development of the City.
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The Lone Sailor Statue, overlooking Long Beach Harbor from Bluff Park, is an exact replica of the bronze sculpture created by Stanley Bleifield in 1984 and installed at the United States Navy Memorial in Washington, D.C., in 1987.
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One of a number of small-scale Art Deco commercial buildings in downtown Long Beach is called, simply, the Art Deco Building. It was designed by locally prominent architect George D. Riddle and built in 1930 by J.D. Sherer & Son.
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Parkers’ Lighthouse, a restaurant on the east side of the entrance into Rainbow Harbor in Long Beach, anchors one end of Shoreline Village that was built in 1982 as part of a larger effort to revitalize Long Beach’s shoreline.
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The Minerva Park Place Historic District in Long Beach, a narrow street lined with 16 Spanish Colonial Revival homes, was established in 1989 to preserve the houses built by street resident and building contractor Frank Smith in 1925.
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The Skinny House in the Rose Park neighborhood of Long Beach is a narrow, three-story house, built in 1932, that has been cited by both the Guinness Book of World Records and Ripley’s Believe It or Not as the nation’s skinniest house.
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The Naples neighborhood of Long Beach is built on three islands divided by canals which open into Alamitos Bay. Home today to multimillion-dollar houses, Naples started as the vision of developer Arthur M. Parsons in 1903.
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