Bluff Park is a small, upscale neighborhood in Long Beach, California, United States. There is a bluff along much of the beach in Long Beach, and on one stretch, there is the narrow Bluff Park from which the neighborhood gets its name.
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 The neighborhoods of Bluff Park and Bluff Heights in Long Beach, California, looking to the southwest. Bluff Park is in the middle portion of the image near the shoreline, with Bluff Heights in the lower part of the image. | |
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| Coordinates: 33°45′49.45″N 118°9′31.74″W / 33.7637361°N 118.1588167°W | |
| Country |  United States |
| State |  California |
| County |  Los Angeles |
| City |  Long Beach |
| Website | bluffpark |
Bluff Park is the location of the Long Beach Museum of Art, as well as many older, well-maintained homes. There is also a Buddhist monastery that once was a Roman Catholic convent.
The boundaries for the Bluff Park Historic District (founded in 1982) are defined as Ocean Boulevard on the south, Junipero Avenue of the west, a jagged line between 2nd St. and Broadway on the north, and Loma Avenue on the east. The community of Belmont Heights is to the east of Bluff Park, the community of Bluff Heights is to the north, and the community of Alamitos Beach is to the west.
Bluff Park
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Bluff Park is a 25.8-acre (104,000 m2) park located between Ocean Blvd. and a tall bluff above the large sandy beach in the area. It is frequented by joggers, strollers, and dog walkers. Hobbyists with radio-controlled gliders like to use the natural updrafts of the bluff for their model planes. There is a replica of The Lone Sailor in the park in honor of Long Beach's Naval heritage.[1]
Historic buildings and homes
editThe historic district includes a variety of architectural styles, including Greene and Greene, American Craftsman, California Bungalow, Spanish Revival, Prairie Style, American Colonial Revival, Tudor and Mediterranean from the early 1900s.
- The Heartwell/Lowe House, 1919, 2505 East 2nd St., Colonial Revival (just outside the Bluff Park Historic District)
- Long Beach Museum of Art (the Elizabeth Milbank Anderson house and carriage house), 1912, 2300 East Ocean Blvd., Craftsman Bungalow[2]
- Long Beach Monastery, 3361 E. Ocean Blvd., (affiliation: Mahayana, Ch'an (Zen), Dharma Realm Buddhist Association)
- Irving Gill house, 2749 E. Ocean Boulevard[3]
- Weathering Heights[4][5]
- Roland Swaffield[6] house, architecture by L. Milton Wolf[7]
- La Villa de la Luna, built 1923[8]
- Southwind House, built for Dr. A.C. Sellery, co-founder of Seaside Hospital; designed by William Horace Austin, 1913[9]
- Beans Reardon House[10]
- Clarence J. Smale[11]
- Roland Coate[12][13]
- Meyer & Holler[14]
Gallery
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Bluff Park at sunset -
Lone Sailor statue -
The beach below Bluff Park -
Postcard, circa 1930 to 1945 -
Crowd at Bluff Park watching the Space Shuttle Endeavour en route to Los Angeles International Airport, 2012
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See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "The Lone Sailor Statue". The United States Navy Memorial website. Archived from the original on June 18, 2009. Retrieved June 4, 2009.
- ^ "Long Beach Art Museum". BeachCalifornia.com. Retrieved 2008-03-18.
- ^ O'Connor, Pauline (1 May 2020). "Long Beach home designed by the 'father of modern architecture' asks $3M". Curbed LA.
- ^ Grobaty, Tim (30 May 2012). "The time is right to grab Weathering Heights house for $3M". Press Telegram.
- ^ Jergler, Don (30 January 2014). "Bluff Heights home a 'Weathering Heights' love story". Orange County Register.
- ^ "Palos Verdes Peninsula News — California Digital Newspaper Collection". cdnc.ucr.edu. 23 February 1961.
- ^ Grobaty, Tim. "Get gawked at in this historic First Street home for $2.749 million • Long Beach Post News". lbpost.com.
- ^ Grobaty, Tim. "Longtime owner of La Villa de la Luna in Bluff Park puts 'his baby' on the market for $4M • Long Beach Post News". lbpost.com.
- ^ Edwards, Andrew (1 October 2013). "Long Beach: 100-year-old historic house on the market". Press Telegram.
- ^ Grobaty, Tim. "Column: Safe at home—Bluff Park and the Beans House • Long Beach Post News". lbpost.com.
- ^ Grobaty, Tim. "This nearly century-old home in Bluff Park is on the market for the first time, listed at $3 million • Long Beach Post News". lbpost.com.
- ^ "'Casa Oceana' Beachfront Estate In Long Beach Now For Sale". Long Beach, CA Patch. 8 August 2019.
- ^ O'Connor, Pauline (12 August 2019). "Sprawling 1920s villa listed for $12M aims to shatter Long Beach sales record". Curbed LA.
- ^ Grobaty, Tim. "A classic and familiar Bluff Park home hits the market at $2.25 million • Long Beach Post News". lbpost.com.
External links
edit- Bluff Park Historic District
- "Bluff Park Historic District Map". Archived from the original on 2006-10-06.
- "Bluff Park Historic District Ordinance". Archived from the original on 2005-11-19.