California Heights is a historic neighborhood of
Long Beach, California
Long Beach is a city in Los Angeles County, California. It is the 42nd-most populous city in the United States, with a population of 466,742 as of 2020. A charter city, Long Beach is the seventh-most populous city in California.
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Location
California Heights is located north of
Signal Hill, east of
Los Cerritos, south of
North Long Beach
North Long Beach (also referred to as North Town or Northside) is a predominantly working-class area of Long Beach, California. The neighborhood is bounded to the west, north and east by the Long Beach city limits (the Rancho Dominguez unincorpor ...
and
Bixby Knolls, and west of
Long Beach Airport
Long Beach Airport is a public airport three miles northeast of downtown Long Beach, in Los Angeles County, California, United States. It is also called Daugherty Field, named after local aviator Earl Daugherty. The airport was an operating base ...
. Shops and restaurants are conveniently located on
Atlantic Avenue, which runs through the district.
Description
Until the early 1920s California Heights was part of the Bixby Ranch (now
Rancho Los Cerritos) and was used primarily as grazing land. It was the discovery of oil on Signal Hill and the ensuing land boom in 1921 that caused the
Jotham Bixby Company to subdivide and sell off lots in the California Heights tract.
In 1927, California Heights included Chateau Thierry (the subdivision on the west side of California Avenue) and petitioned the City of Long Beach for paved streets, sidewalks, curbs and ornamental lighting.
The California Heights-Chateau Thierry area grew rapidly, with approximately 250 families moving into the neighborhood between 1925 and 1927. The area continued to attract new families, and by 1939 most of the building was complete.
Architecture
The district consists of approximately 1,500 homes. The predominant architectural style is
Spanish Colonial Revival
The Spanish Colonial Revival Style ( es, Arquitectura neocolonial española) is an architectural stylistic movement arising in the early 20th century based on the Spanish Colonial architecture of the Spanish colonization of the Americas.
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Craftsman bungalows and
Tudor Revival
Tudor Revival architecture (also known as mock Tudor in the UK) first manifested itself in domestic architecture in the United Kingdom in the latter half of the 19th century. Based on revival of aspects that were perceived as Tudor architecture ...
styles can also be found.
See also
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Neighborhoods of Long Beach, California
External links
California Heights Neighborhood AssociationLong Beach Historic DistrictCalifornia Heights Historic District Video Homes Tour
References
Neighborhoods in Long Beach, California
Populated places established in 1921
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