Artist the Pizz’s 1931 Spanish-style house holds a considerable array of art and collectibles

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“I don’t know. What do you call this, Spanish Revival?” lowbrow artist the Pizz asks as we’re squinting at the signature on a print in the two-story, 1931 house he shares with his wife Yukie in East Long Beach. [...]

Craftsman Village Historic District is ready for its walking-tour close-up

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Some of Long Beach’s great, historic houses still go unseen—and some people would like to change that.
“You drive down Seventh St., you’re going so fast that you can’t really see what’s out there,” says Michelle Arend-Ekhoff as we sit at the oak dining [...]

The house that perseverance, Rastra and a factory in Corona built

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The house Graham Robertson and Karena Massengill share with their two African Grey Parrots is two stories tall and it sits on the edge of the bluff in San Pedro, grounded in a still-revolutionary building material called Rastra, a blend of Styrofoam [...]

Josh and Erika Lowenthal’s 1905 Craftsman-Chalet house is classic, quiet Carroll Park

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Lined with mature trees and vintage houses, Carroll Park has to be our most silent historic district.
On a recent evening, the rustling of the breeze through the pine trees was punctuated only by the briefest wail of a distant police siren. [...]

E. Thor Carlson’s 1953 house in Ridgewood Heights seems made for entertaining

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“Art. We’re all about art,” former Cultural Heritage Commissioner E. Thor Carlson says, after a tour of the house he and friend Michael Hudson own in the 1950s Ridgewood Heights subdivision of Bixby Knolls.
He’s a man of his word: The cavernous [...]

How Pastor Joe Ginder, his family and their friends ministered to an historic landmark

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Eleven years ago, Pastor Joe Ginder and his family lived across town in a perfectly fine and ordinary house, when they came into a piece of history.
“God called us here to ministry,” says Ginder, a Pittsburgh native who has [...]

The Danis family’s holiday lights are an Appian Way tradition

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It’s a week before Christmas and the temperature is in the 50s, which is cold for California. Patricia Danis and her friend are, yes, out in the rain trying to fix a light-up deer with a broken neck—and I’m getting wet trying to [...]

His house is immaculate, but contractor Arthur J. Paul works at it, a little each day

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What kind of house does a contractor live in? A custom-built house, of course. And so, while Arthur and Lori Paul’s Depression-era home in Bixby Knolls spent its first 50 years as a modest stucco box with [...]

At age 65 in 1932, she commissioned one of the city’s most ornately-designed decorated homes

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A childless widow with investments in the oil and movie industries, Minnie Butler must have been the youngest 65-year-old ever. How else to explain the way she spent the year 1932? At an age when many people were [...]

WebUrbanist has compiled a list of 10 of the most creative port container homes. Included of course is Peter DeMaria’s famous Redondo Beach design, but there’s also some more colorful selections from around the world. There’s even a house inside of a house.
Still no shining example of port container architecture in Long Beach, though.