Bluff Park is a small, upscale neighborhood in Long Beach, California , United States. There is a bluff along much of the beach in Long Beach, and on one stretch, there is the narrow Bluff Park from which the neighborhood gets its name.
18-536: Bluff Park is the location of the Long Beach Museum of Art , as well as many older, well-maintained homes. There is also a Buddhist monastery that once was a Roman Catholic convent. The boundaries for the Bluff Park Historic District (founded in 1982) are defined as Ocean Boulevard on the south, Junipero Avenue of the west, a jagged line between 2nd St. and Broadway on the north, and Loma Avenue on
36-467: A design and construction firm, with Mendel Meyer as president, Gabriel Holler as vice president, and Julius C. Schneider as Secretary. In 1911, they were joined by Phillip W. Holler. The Milwaukee Building Company became the Los Angeles-based architectural office of Meyer & Holler, an eminent firm responsible for the design of numerous Southern California landmark buildings. The company opted for
54-812: Is a member of the North American Reciprocal Museums program and is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums . The structure occupied by the Long Beach Museum of Art was built in 1912 as a winter home by Elizabeth Milbank Anderson , a wealthy philanthropist and heir to Jeremiah Milbank , who was a financier, a co-founder of the Borden Company , and a founder of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad. According to Fortune Magazine, “a number of Milbanks have been considerable figures in
72-476: Is a museum located on Ocean Boulevard in the Bluff Park neighborhood of Long Beach, California , United States. The museum's permanent collection includes over 4,000 paintings, drawings, sculptures, works on paper, and decorative arts objects. Particular strengths include American decorative arts objects, early 20th century European art , California Modernism , and contemporary art of California. The museum
90-418: Is still in existence. She donated a library to Greenwich, Connecticut, and gave three blocks of choice New York City land to Barnard College, upon which was built Milbank Hall. She built public facilities for the poor, such as a sports arena and public baths, and established a program of free school lunches. Her husband, Abram A. Anderson, was a well-known portrait painter and friend of Teddy Roosevelt. In 1926,
108-761: The Design-build approach very early in its history. The architectural firm to design the structure and the Milwaukee Building Company to build it. Only on very rare occasions did it contract to erect projects designed by independent architects. In the 1920s in Los Angeles, Meyer & Holler were one of the most esteemed architectural firms, and the Milwaukee Building Company was the largest contracting firm. At first emphasizing residential work of an increasingly important scale, Meyer & Holler switched to an emphasis on commercial work after World War I. Integral to
126-681: The Los Angeles firm of Meyer & Holler , an eminent firm that constructed numerous landmark buildings. Their most famous designs were the Chinese and Egyptian Theaters in Hollywood. In Long Beach, they designed the Ocean Center Building , Walker's Department Store , and the Fox West Coast Theater (now demolished). The museum is open Thursday through Sunday, 11am-5pm. The museum also has an oceanview café with outdoor tables, Claire's at
144-629: The Milbank family and associates. In 1911, Isaac Milbank, co-founder of the Borden Milk Company and an oil investor, had a magnificent Craftsman summer home constructed for him in Santa Monica by the Milwaukee Building Company. At the same time, the Milwaukee Building Company constructed a similar home on the same street in Santa Monica for retired hotel proprietor Henry Weaver, who owned several Midwest hotels. The Milwaukee Building Company later became
162-589: The Museum has provided education through its KidsVisions Program to all fifth grade students in the Long Beach Unified School District. The program content follows the guidelines of the National, State, and Long Beach School District Standards for Visual and Performing Arts. The museum offers Toyota Tours free of charge to all school groups (public or private). The museum schedules educator-led tours for
180-430: The Museum, that is open for lunch and also has a popular weekend brunch. The restaurant is named in honor of Claire Falkenstein , an American sculptor who created the restaurant's centerpiece, Structure and Flow, a fountain with twisting latticework, which was donated to the museum in 1972. The museum hosts exhibitions of artwork made by children and students of the community in its Toyota Student Gallery. Since 1999,
198-559: The company's strategy for success was the offering of architectural design services of an unusually high level of quality, which it was able to due as a result of hiring some of the finest architectural design talent available in Southern California in the 1910s and 1920s. Meyer and Holler was founded by Gabriel S. Meyer and Philip W. Holler Meyer & Holler also designed and built apartment buildings, hotels, banks, and churches. A number of Meyer & Holler buildings are now on
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#1732880339537216-424: The east. The community of Belmont Heights is to the east of Bluff Park, the community of Bluff Heights is to the north, and the community of Alamitos Beach is to the west. Bluff Park is a 25.8-acre (104,000 m) park located between Ocean Blvd. and a tall bluff above the large sandy beach in the area. It is frequented by joggers, strollers, and dog walkers. Hobbyists with radio-controlled gliders like to use
234-556: The first CEO of the American Petroleum Institute . During World War II, the house was the U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer's Club. It was purchased by the City of Long Beach in 1950 for a Municipal Art Center, and designated in 1957 as the Long Beach Museum of Art. Today, while the museum is still owned by the City of Long Beach, its day-to-day operations are handled by a private foundation, the Long Beach Museum of Art Foundation. In
252-477: The general public for groups of 10–15. Meyer %26 Holler Meyer & Holler was an architecture firm based in Los Angeles, California , noted for its opulent commercial buildings and movie theatres, including Grauman's Chinese and Egyptian theatres, built during the 1920s. Meyer & Holler was also known as The Milwaukee Building Company. The Milwaukee Building Company was established in 1906 as
270-675: The house became Long Beach's first social, athletic and beach club, the Club California Casa Real. Its prominence was soon eclipsed by the Pacific Coast Club, which opened three months later. From 1929 to 1944, Thomas A. O’Donnell , a pioneer industrialist of the California oil industry, owned the house. He developed the Coalinga field, helped organize American Petroleum Corporation and became president of California Petroleum Co. and
288-548: The industrial history of the U.S. and the family has also left its mark on the educational and medical institutions of the country…” (May 1959). Elizabeth Milbank Anderson (1850–1921) was an energetic, strong-minded woman with a wide range of interests. She was a successful businesswoman, philanthropist and art collector who traveled frequently to Europe. In 1905 she established the Milbank Memorial Fund, which gave grants to various medical and educational projects; this fund
306-589: The late 1990s, the foundation undertook a major capital campaign to fund the complete restoration of the historic facilities, relocation of the carriage house and construction of a new two-story exhibition pavilion. The project was completed in September, 2000. The Elizabeth Milbank Anderson House and carriage house (now the Miller Education Center) were designed and built by the Milwaukee Building Company, an influential architectural firm that did other work for
324-480: The natural updrafts of the bluff for their model planes. There is a replica of The Lone Sailor in the park in honor of Long Beach's Naval heritage . The historic district includes a variety of architectural styles, including Greene and Greene , American Craftsman , California Bungalow , Spanish Revival , Prairie Style , American Colonial Revival , Tudor and Mediterranean from the early 1900s. Long Beach Museum of Art The Long Beach Museum of Art
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