The Boumas’ California Heights Spanish Colonial is a low-mileage museum of style

PHOTO by JENNIFER STOCKDALE
Being named the West’s best neighborhood by Sunset magazine in 2002 makes California Heights probably the city’s most famous historic residential district. But it makes owning a Spanish-style in Cal Heights—possibly the signature architectural style here—spendy, and a lot of work. [...]

Our weekly microscopic look at Long Beach

PHOTO by SUSAN SABO
Long Beach is filled with great Spanish architectural details like this. Most of them are on a house that I secretly covet. This one, however, is on a public building, where I can covet right out in the open.

PHOTO by SUSAN SABO
ANSWER: The fabulous bit of [...]