PCAD - Lafayette Hotel, Long Beach, CA

Structure Type: built works - dwellings - houses - apartment houses; built works - dwellings -public accommodations - hotels

Postcard view of the Lafayette Hotel, Long Beach, c. 1950. From the author's collection, postcard by the H.S. Crocker Company, Incorporated, San Francisco, CA

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Linden Avenue
Long Beach, CA

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Linden Avenue south of Broadway.

Building History

The Lafayette Apartments, built in the late 1920s, functioned as a Hilton Hotel in the 1950s, before being turned into a condominium building in about 1980. The building's eleventh (top) floor had a 3,000-square-foot ballroom with sweeping views of the Long Beach and Los Angeles.

In 1980, Jean and Joseph Krause purchased the top floor ballroom for re-use as an apartment. They bought it for $250,000. Joseph Krause was an art history professor at Cal State Long Beach and Jean, a free-lance advertising designer. Architect Elisha Dubin supervised the remodeling effort for the Krauses, working with two contractors. Dubin was a friend of the Krauses'.

PCAD id: 11816

Publications

Bailey, Eric, "Echoes of Earlier Era Fill Couple's L.B. Penthouse", Los Angeles Times, SE2, 03/28/1985.

Lafayette Hotel, Long Beach, CA (1927)

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