Barker Brothers Furniture Company, Store, Downtown, Long Beach, CA (1929) demolished

Structure Type: built works - commercial buildings - stores

Designers: Dedrick and Bobbe (firm); Earle R. Bobbe (architect); Warren A. Dedrick Sr. (architect)

Dates: constructed 1929, demolished 1994

8 stories

141 East Broadway
Downtown, Long Beach, CA 90802-4730
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215 Promenade Plaza or the Promenade North is another address given for the Barker Brothers Store.

Building History

The Long Beach architectural firm Dedrick and Bobbe produced the design for this reinforced-concrete, Art Deco-influenced highrise.

Barker Brothers gained a reputation in Los Angeles as one of the more progressive furniture retailers since the 1920s; it offered Modern furniture lines and had in-house designers who could create custom designs for clients.

The store was abandoned from 1982-1994.

Demolition

Barker Brothers' Long Beach Store was demolished in 1994. It didn't meet contemporary seismic codes and became too expensive for its owners to retrofit.

PCAD id: 1912

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