Bluff Park, Long Beach, California

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'''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.

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 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== [[File:Belmont Fishing Pier (191455031).jpeg|thumb|left|Bluff Park, and the Shoreline Pedestrian Bikepath and Belmont Veterans Memorial Pier]] Bluff Park is a {{convert|25.8|acre|m2|adj=on}} 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 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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.navymemorial.org/About/WhatCanYouSeeHere/TheMemorialPlaza/LoneSailorStatue/tabid/197/Default.aspx |title=The Lone Sailor Statue |accessdate=June 4, 2009 |work=The United States Navy Memorial website |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090618025355/http://www.navymemorial.org/About/WhatCanYouSeeHere/TheMemorialPlaza/LoneSailorStatue/tabid/197/Default.aspx |archivedate=June 18, 2009 }} </ref>

==Historic buildings and homes== 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. * The Heartwell/Lowe House, 1919, 2505 East 2nd St., Colonial Revival (just outside the Bluff Park Historic District) * Long Beach Museum of Art (the Elizabeth Milbank Anderson house and carriage house), 1912, 2300 East Ocean Blvd., Craftsman Bungalow<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.beachcalifornia.com/lbart.html |title=Long Beach Art Museum |accessdate=2008-03-18 |author= |date= |work=BeachCalifornia.com |publisher=}}</ref> * Long Beach Monastery, 3361 E. Ocean Blvd., (affiliation: Mahayana, Ch'an (Zen), Dharma Realm Buddhist Association) * Irving Gill house, 2749 E. Ocean Boulevard<ref>{{cite news |last1=O'Connor |first1=Pauline |title=Long Beach home designed by the ‘father of modern architecture’ asks $3M |url=https://la.curbed.com/2020/5/1/21240954/irving-gill-raymond-house-long-beach-for-sale |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200502125113/https://la.curbed.com/2020/5/1/21240954/irving-gill-raymond-house-long-beach-for-sale |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 2, 2020 |work=Curbed LA |date=1 May 2020 |language=en}}</ref> * Weathering Heights<ref>{{cite news |last1=Grobaty |first1=Tim |title=The time is right to grab Weathering Heights house for $3M |url=https://www.presstelegram.com/2012/05/30/tim-grobaty-the-time-is-right-to-grab-weathering-heights-house-for-3m/ |work=Press Telegram |date=30 May 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Jergler |first1=Don |title=Bluff Heights home a ‘Weathering Heights’ love story |url=https://www.ocregister.com/2014/01/30/bluff-heights-home-a-weathering-heights-love-story/ |work=Orange County Register |date=30 January 2014}}</ref> * Roland Swaffield<ref>{{cite web |title=Palos Verdes Peninsula News — California Digital Newspaper Collection |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=PVPN19610223.2.16&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |website=cdnc.ucr.edu |date=23 February 1961}}</ref> house, architecture by L. Milton Wolf<ref>{{cite news |last1=Grobaty |first1=Tim |title=Get gawked at in this historic First Street home for $2.749 million • Long Beach Post News |url=https://lbpost.com/news/get-gawked-at-in-this-historic-first-street-home-for-2-749-million/ |work=lbpost.com}}</ref> * La Villa de la Luna, built 1923<ref>{{cite news |last1=Grobaty |first1=Tim |title=Longtime owner of La Villa de la Luna in Bluff Park puts 'his baby' on the market for $4M • Long Beach Post News |url=https://lbpost.com/news/la-villa-de-la-luna-bluff-park-house |work=lbpost.com}}</ref> * Southwind House, built for Dr. A.C. Sellery, co-founder of Seaside Hospital; designed by William Horace Austin, 1913<ref>{{cite news |last1=Edwards |first1=Andrew |title=Long Beach: 100-year-old historic house on the market |url=https://www.presstelegram.com/2013/10/01/long-beach-100-year-old-historic-house-on-the-market/ |work=Press Telegram |date=1 October 2013}}</ref> * Beans Reardon House<ref>{{cite news |last1=Grobaty |first1=Tim |title=Column: Safe at home—Bluff Park and the Beans House • Long Beach Post News |url=https://lbpost.com/news/place/real-estate/column-safe-at-home-bluff-park-and-the-beans-house |work=lbpost.com}}</ref> * Clarence J. Smale<ref>{{cite news |last1=Grobaty |first1=Tim |title=This nearly century-old home in Bluff Park is on the market for the first time, listed at $3 million • Long Beach Post News |url=https://lbpost.com/news/this-nearly-century-old-home-in-bluff-park-is-on-the-market-for-the-first-time-listed-at-3-million |work=lbpost.com}}</ref> * Roland Coate<ref>{{cite news |title='Casa Oceana' Beachfront Estate In Long Beach Now For Sale |url=https://patch.com/california/longbeach-ca/casa-oceana-beachfront-estate-long-beach-now-sale |work=Long Beach, CA Patch |date=8 August 2019 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=O'Connor |first1=Pauline |title=Sprawling 1920s villa listed for $12M aims to shatter Long Beach sales record |url=https://la.curbed.com/2019/8/12/20797756/1920s-villa-for-sale-belmont-shore-long-beach |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190813013052/https://la.curbed.com/2019/8/12/20797756/1920s-villa-for-sale-belmont-shore-long-beach |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 13, 2019 |work=Curbed LA |date=12 August 2019 |language=en}}</ref> * Meyer & Holler<ref>{{cite news |last1=Grobaty |first1=Tim |title=A classic and familiar Bluff Park home hits the market at $2.25 million • Long Beach Post News |url=https://lbpost.com/news/place/real-estate/2303-ocean-boulevard-bluff-park-kennebec |work=lbpost.com}}</ref>

==Gallery== <gallery mode="packed">

File:Bluff_park_long_beach.JPG|Bluff Park at sunset File:LoneSailor.jpg|''Lone Sailor'' statue File:Long Beach California Birds.JPG|The beach below Bluff Park File:The beach front, along East Ocean Avenue, Long Beach, California (64201).jpg|Postcard, circa 1930 to 1945 File:City of Long Beach and Endeavour (8010215657) (2).jpg|Crowd at Bluff Park watching the Space Shuttle ''Endeavour'' en route to Los Angeles International Airport, 2012 </gallery>

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==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20080724080412/http://www.longbeach.gov/plan/pb/hpd/historic_districts/bluff_park.asp Bluff Park Historic District] * {{cite web|url= http://www.longbeach.gov/civica/filebank/blobdload.asp?BlobID=5341|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20061006105227/http://www.longbeach.gov/civica/filebank/blobdload.asp?BlobID=5341 |url-status= dead |archive-date= 2006-10-06 |title=Bluff Park Historic District Map }} * {{cite web |url= http://www.longbeach.gov:80/civica/filebank/blobdload.asp?BlobID=8783 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20051119090443/http://www.longbeach.gov/civica/filebank/blobdload.asp?BlobID=8783 |url-status= dead |archive-date= 2005-11-19 |title= Bluff Park Historic District Ordinance }}

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