The interior of the home at 304 Eliot Lane feels a bit larger than its stats would indicate, although, face it, at 650 square feet you wouldn’t feel like you’re in a sprawling ranch-style home.
Firefighters from all over the state converged in Long Beach this week for three days of comprehensive training on how to play with fire.
The Long Beach Solita will be the biggest incarnation of the chain, moving into the cavernous Rock Bottom site of more than 9,000 square feet, with seating for more than 300 customers.
The Beach & Oceanaire on Ocean Boulevard was one of Long Beach’s more beloved and enduring motels. The homes that replaced it are going up for sale.
A doctor determined he died of natural causes. He was 87.
If prices ever drop will you be able to finally get your foot in the home-ownership door, or will hedge fund companies snap up inventory as greedily as a pair of pet Pembroke Welsh corgis attacking the platter of pigs-in-a-blanket that you accidentally dropped on the rug?
It’s a beautiful old two-story Craftsman set on more than a quarter-acre lot that’s dotted with century-old trees. If $785,000 seems like a steal, it is, and whoever ends up buying it will likely have to pay more than the asking price.
The Beer house checks off most of the distinguishing features of Mission Revival: Most importantly, the mission-shaped roof, along with roof parapets, arched doorway, overhanging eaves and red clay tile roof.
The home, designed by the Long Beach architects John Duffy and Leo Dreher, was built for John F. McGill and his wife Millie in 1961. Among Duffy & Dreher’s other work around the city were the old-London-style buildings in Mary’s Gate Village adjacent to the Queen Mary.
The tract style of Storybook homes affordable and came into favor in the mid-1950s before fizzling out about a decade later.
