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The Beach Terrace Apt Hotel

  • Address: 33 11th Pl
  • Vicinity: Off Ocean blvd
  • Type: Apartment Building
  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Building

Mid Century Modern Noir

The Beach Terrace Apartment Hotel is a mid-20th-century residential complex in Long Beach, California. Designed by architect Victor E Siebert, the building was considered an innovative solution for a bluff-top site overlooking a broad sandy beach. The multilevel structure rises six stories, with two levels above the cliff and four built into the bluff, all supported by pilings driven into the sand. Plans called for reinforced concrete and steel construction, fully glazed ocean-facing facades, and 16-by-43-foot sun decks on each level. The 11-unit apartment hotel later appeared as the Beach Terrace Motel in Brian De Palma's 1984 film Body Double. - AsNotedIn


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Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1948/05/30 Victor E Siebert Architect a novel beach type apartment house ... will be constructed for Mr and Mrs F C Westskil, 221 Corona Avenue, at 11th Place, over looking the ocean.... Definitely a new idea in local apartment house construction, - Independent
1984/00/00 Brian De Palma Director Director Brian De Palma films scenes for "Body Double" at the "Beach Terrace Motel". The tunnel featured in the movie, the Bixby Passageway Tunnel, is 0.4 miles (0.6 km) east of the former Beach Terrace Apt Hotel.

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Particulars for The Beach Terrace Apt Hotel:
Building Type Apartment Building
Area of Significance Architecture
Sight Category Building
Architectural Style Mid-Century Modern
Architectural Style Modern Movement
Historic Use Multiple dwelling
Owner Private




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