Help Shape Long Beach's Future

Your input is needed at an important HPE Community Workshop


A Historic Preservation Element (HPE) gives the community the opportunity to focus appropriate attention on the protection of cultural resources. It is recognition that the historic buildings and features within your community are important assets worth special planning consideration. A HPE outlines a course of action through goals, policy objectives, and implementation measures that Long Beach will pursue for the next few decades.

The HPE sets policy direction and reinforces Long Beach’s preservation ethic.

It is important that all Long Beach Heritage members attend meetings, community workshops, and provide input on the new HPE.
April 30 2008   More Info

Bixby Bandshell Grand Reopening

May 10 2008 Special Events
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Historic Bus Tour

Narrated by Stan Poe
Sunday April 20th from 11:00 to 3:00 pm
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May Day Event
Saturday, April 26 1-5 pm
Drake Park & Bembridge Heritage Homesite
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Early Long Beach Architecture Show
February 6- March 5 2008
Art show features the work of California architects Henry F. Starbuck, Robert F. Train, Robert E. William, J. Cather Newsom, Garrett and Bixby, and John C. Austin. Please come for opening night February 6 for an art gallery tour with Dr. Louise Ivers, Professor Art Department CSU Dominguez Hills and guest curator of the exhibit.  For more information.

Everything is coming up Needle Art
March 1- May 3 2008
10 Classes Starting March 1
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Messages from the LBH Executive Board

Advocacy- Preserving Buildings & Landmarks
John Thomas Winter 2008

Presidents Message


Stan Poe Winter 2008

Stan Poe Featured in Long Beach Magazine
View March 2008 LB Magazine Article
PDF Copy of Magazine Article

Bembridge Homesite Update-The Bembridge House leaded glass and stained glass windows have all been repaired and look wonderful!    
(2008) Come visit the Bembridge House during the April 26 May Day event.
Charlotte Mitchell Spring 2008



LBH Preservation Awards

Information about the 2008 Long Beach Heritage Preservaton Gala and Awardees


Long Beach Heritage News


Adaptive Reuse Ordinance (Winter 2008)
Proactive Incentives for Historical Preservation of Buildingsp

"A major component of an ARO is the review of development standards and relaxation of some requirements to allow existing buildings ( especially historic) to be considered for reuse. "

Adaptive Reuse Ordinance: Proactive Incentives for Historic Preservation Many older cities have developed ordinances or incentives designed to encourage the reuse of existing buildings. When buildings are brought back to life through Adaptive Reuse Ordinances (AROs), they contribute to revitalizing neighborhoods by preserving historic and cultural resources, creating new housing and mixed-use opportunities, and increasing public safety in “transitional” urban areas. Adaptive Reuse promotes buildings and areas long overlooked and stimulates economic growth in our older commercial and urban cores. A major benefit is the protection of architecturally significant and historic buildings. More on adaptive reuse.


Design Approved for Downtown's Ocean Center Building (Winter 2008)
by Joe Segura (Reprinted from the Press Telegram)

An 18-month effort was capped when the Cultural Heritage Commission approved the conceptual design for modifications to the historic landmark Ocean Center Building. The 1928 landmark, with its whitewashed exterior that presents a stark contrast to the neighboring modern marble-slabbed structures, is on the southwest corner of Pine Avenue and Ocean Boulevard. The building, according to Interstices architect Jonathan Glasgow, was originally built as a mixed-use retail and office building. The mixed-use feature will shift to retail and residential—the latter with 82 boutique hotel rooms and 18 condominiums, Glasgow said. More on Ocean Center Building