Long Beach : 6 Buildings Designated as Cultural Landmarks

The City Council has named six buildings as Long Beach cultural heritage landmarks: the Fire Engine Company No. 8 building, the Golden House, the Masonic Temple, the Pacific Tower, St. Anthony’s Church and St. Luke’s Episcopal Church.

The firehouse, built in 1929 in Renaissance Revival style, is a prominent neighborhood landmark in Belmont Shore. The Golden House, constructed about 1886, is a single-story wooden house on West 10th Street that is thought to be the oldest building in the city. The York Rite Masonic Temple on Locust Street was built in 1927 and contains a number of individual halls decorated in a different exotic revival style, such as Egyptian and Roman.

The downtown Pacific Tower, a 12-story office building dating from 1923, was the first “own-your-own” office building in the nation. St. Anthony’s Church on Olive Avenue is the leading Catholic Church in Long Beach and replaced an earlier church destroyed in the 1933 earthquake. St. Luke’s Episcopal Church on Atlantic Avenue was rebuilt in the Gothic Revival style after the earthquake.