Lynwood Pacific Electric Railway Depot

Built in 1917 at Fernwood Avenue and Long Beach Boulevard in Lynwood, this passenger station replaced a simple shed shelter beside sugar beet fields on the Pacific Electric Santa Ana line. The Lynwood Company built it for the Southern Pacific in exchange for track-side improvements such as grading and drainage. Its long gabled tile roof rests on fluted columns and is anchored by gabled brick piers with arched windows, mixing Classical Revival and California Bungalow elements. The architect is unknown, and no drawings have been found. The nomination describes it as the only surviving Pacific Electric passenger station, and it came through the 1933 Long Beach earthquake. Its design was apparently never repeated elsewhere on the system. The station recalls how the interurban line shaped Lynwood, which grew from ranch and farm land into a commuter community and incorporated in 1921. By the time of nomination, the building stood abandoned and vandalized after later use as a bus depot, taxi stand, lunch stand and typing school, though still repairable.