{"nrhp_refnum":"90001432","name":"First National Bank of Long Beach","other_names":["California National Bank","Bank of America","Metropolitan Buildi"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"101--125 Pine Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Long Beach","county":"Los Angeles County","state":"CA","lat":33.76822461100005,"lon":-118.19266142299995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-09-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A six-story plus basement brick and steel commercial bank building at 101-125 Pine Avenue, on the northwest corner of Pine Avenue and West First Street in Long Beach, California. It was designed in 1906 by Train and Williams in Renaissance Revival style.","why_significant":"The building is significant under Criterion C as Long Beach's most notable turn-of-the-century commercial building, and its clock tower dominates the downtown skyline. It is the finest extant commercial work of the architects Train and Williams, and their only known work in Long Beach. It is also the only surviving pre-World War I commercial building over three stories downtown, and it is tied to the city's early bankers and civic leaders.","narrative":"Rising six stories at the corner of Pine Avenue and West First Street, this Long Beach bank building was designed in 1906 by the Los Angeles firm Train and Williams. Its Renaissance Revival design is built of brick over a steel frame, with pedimented entries and windows and a corner clock tower that became a downtown landmark. The First National Bank, founded in 1900, replaced an earlier three-story building on the site and occupied the new structure until 1920. California National Bank then moved in, followed by Bank of America from 1927 to 1982. The ground floor was covered in blue tile in 1938 and the parapet was removed in 1954. A rehabilitation from 1983 to 1989 rebuilt both from historic photographs. The building is the only known Long Beach work of its architects, the only pre-World War I commercial building over three stories left downtown, and one of few to survive the 1933 earthquake intact.","period_of_significance":"1906","architect_builder":"Train and Williams","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Renaissance Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Rehabilitated from 1983 to 1989, with the ground floor and parapet recreated in original and substitute materials and the interior being adapted to restaurant, office and retail uses.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:27.79379-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/90001432.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001432/c196e80328-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001432/c196e80328-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Epolk","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:First_National_Bank_of_Long_Beach.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Epolk</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:First_National_Bank_of_Long_Beach.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123859115","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_National_Bank_of_Long_Beach","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5453407"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/los-angeles-county/first-national-bank-of-long-beach-90001432/"}