It’s harder to research your own house

PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES
Uncovering your house’s history sounds easy when someone else is telling you about where they live, but it can take hours of deciphering old building permits and trade notices—and they don’t always tell the whole story.
I’ve been trying to learn about C. Waale, the man who [...]

Turning the clock back 40 years on a Bluff Heights condominium

PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES
Radios, ashtrays, vacuums, cabi-nets—everything looks fast in Long Beach Heritage president-elect John Thomas’s Bluff Heights home, which he had gutted three years ago and transformed from 1970s condo to 1930s-era Art Deco apartment. A photograph his partner J. Christopher Launi took of [...]

The 1920s cottages on Barker Way were built from kits

PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES
The little houses on Barker Way in Belmont Heights—and on the north side of Vermont Street between Lucille and Tremont avenues—aren’t a historic district yet.
But residents who own and love them have begun that process, meeting last year with the city’s Historic Preservation [...]