Long Beach Professional Building | |
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Location | 117 E. 8th St., Long Beach, California |
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Coordinates | 33°46′36″N118°11′32″W / 33.77667°N 118.19222°W |
Area | less than one acre |
Built | 1929 |
Architect | Lee, W. Douglas |
Architectural style | Art Deco |
NRHP reference No. | 05000773 [1] |
Added to NRHP | August 3, 2005 |
The Long Beach Professional Building is a historic medical office building in downtown Long Beach, California added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
The eight-story Art Deco two-part vertical block building with its pink and black lobby was built in 1929. It was designed by architect William Douglas Lee. [2] It is particularly notable as the city's first large office building devoted exclusively to medicine. It is a cast-in-place concrete building. [3]
It is also credited for introducing elements commonly found in the so-called "WPA Moderne" style of the 1930s.
In 2018, the building was re-opened by owners, Global Premier Development, and now operates under the name Regency Palms as an Assisted Living and Memory Care facility run by Meridian Senior Living.
KTGY Architecture + Planning was responsible for the historic renovation.