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The City of Huntington Beach identifies this building as the Dr. Hawes Medical Building built in 1936. It served not only as his office, but as an emergency hospital. The International Surfing Museum has called it home since 1990.
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The natural gas-fired power plant located at Newland & PCH in Huntington Beach was built in 1969. It has been upgraded several times and in 2020, was converted to a combined-cycle plant, which increased efficiency and reduced emissions.
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The oldest standing house of worship in the original city of Huntington Beach is downtown at Sixth and Orange. Originally the Huntington Beach Baptist Church, it was dedicated in 1906, three years before the incorporation of the city.
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Beach Center Station at Main and Olive in downtown Huntington Beach opened in 1935 with banners, speeches and music. It was designed by Louis A. Simon and built by L.F. Dow of Los Angeles as a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project.
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Built in 1931, the Huntington Beach Elementary School Gymnasium and Plunge, now the Huntington Beach City Gym and Pool, was the first recreational facility in rural Huntington Beach to offer recreation options to elementary school students.
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In 1962, Orange Coast College District bought 122 acres in Huntington Beach from Wilford Lewis, owner of Golden West Farms, for a new community college campus. Architect William L. Pereira was hired to design the new Golden West College.
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All the buildings on the Huntington Beach High School campus, including the bell tower and auditorium, were replaced in 1926, designed in a Lombard Romanesque Revival style according to the architects Allison and Allison of Santa Ana.
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