{"nrhp_refnum":"05000773","name":"Long Beach Professional Building","other_names":["Pine Villa"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"117 E. 8th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Long Beach","county":"Los Angeles County","state":"CA","lat":33.77669680400004,"lon":-118.19321086299999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-08-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"An eight-story Art Deco office tower at 117 East 8th Street on the northern edge of downtown Long Beach, California, built in 1929 and designed by architect W. Douglas Lee.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is an excellent and rare example of a pre-Depression Art Deco high-rise in Long Beach. It was the city's first building associated with the medical profession and marked the northern end of the Pine Avenue business corridor. It is also one of the few downtown high-rises that survived the 1933 earthquake.","narrative":"Rising eight stories at the corner of Pine Avenue and Eighth Street, this 1929 concrete office tower anchors the northern edge of downtown Long Beach. Architect W. Douglas Lee gave it Art Deco character through vertical piers, recessed spandrels, a foliate frieze, rosette cornice and geometric ornament confined to select areas. The lobby retains marble floors and walls, original elevator cabs and a brass mail chute. Built on a speculative basis for doctors, dentists, psychologists and attorneys, it grew into the city's first building tied to the medical profession, with dozens of physicians as tenants by the 1930s. It reflects the growth of Long Beach's full-time population and its downtown office district, and it is one of the few high-rises that came through the 1933 earthquake. The city designated it a landmark in 1988. After the offices closed in the mid-1990s, a rehabilitation converted the upper floors into assisted living units while restoring the exterior and lobby features.","period_of_significance":"1929","architect_builder":"Lee, W. Douglas","architectural_style":"Modern Movement: Art Deco","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Rehabilitated as an assisted living facility (Pine Villa), placed in service June 19, 2003; the rehabilitation was certified by the National Park Service in December 2004.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:29.629435-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/05000773.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000773/2b2eaf91a9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000773/2b2eaf91a9-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Los Angeles","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Long_Beach_Professional_Building.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Long_Beach_Professional_Building.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123859269","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Beach_Professional_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14683163"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/los-angeles-county/long-beach-professional-building-05000773/"}