Long Beach : Air Terminal, Art Museum Named as Landmarks
The City Council has voted to name as local cultural landmarks the terminal at Long Beach Airport and the Long Beach Museum of Art on Ocean Boulevard.
The 1941 airport terminal was considered avant-garde for its time, bridging the Streamline Moderne style of the 1930s and post-war international design. Among its prized features are ceramic floor mosaics, installed under the Works Projects Administration.
If landmark status is given final approval at the next council meeting, the terminal could not be significantly remodeled without city review and demolition could be delayed for up to a year. The review standards could conceivably interfere with future expansion programs at the airport, but no opposition surfaced at the council meeting.
The Craftsman Bungalow style museum building was constructed in 1912 as a summer home for Elizabeth Milbank Anderson, a wealthy philanthropist and heir to Jeremiah Milbank, a founder of the Borden Co. and of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad.
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