![]() Hotel expands with three cocktail lounges and dining spots: Ivanhoe Room has medieval splendor of King Arthur's court with tunnels, torture chambers, fireplaces, shields and lances steaks, seafood, cocktails and piano bar. Hotel planning to construct breezeway connecting to the newly constructed ballroom to the south. Holds 1,500 dining guests or 2,000 meeting attendees, and has 2,500 square foot dance floor.Ĭity Council hears prolonged special session of testimony by dentists, oral surgeon, to halt closure of alley known as Alta Way between Atlantic and Linden. Ballroom is largest banquet facility west of Chicago at 17,500 square feet. International Ballroom built on former Lafayette garage. Pool area holds 300 persons for "fashion shows, luaus or chuck wagon dinners." Killingsworth, Brady and Smith Architects. 51 deluxe lanai rooms, palm garden and heated swimming pool to be erected behind hotel on parking area. Lafayette Hotel to build addition for $400,000. The buildings are joined to become one large hotel complex. buys the Lafayette Hotel, the new annex (the 1948 Broadway addition), and the Campbell Apartments for $2 million. Other additions/ improvements included the Lafayette supper club, grill and cocktail lounge, and an auto port for 75 cars. Designed in the International Style by Los Angeles architect Theodore H. $25,000 in improvements planned four bungalows to be constructed on roof.īroadway Building constructed as part of $1.5 million Lafayette Hotel expansion. Daily rates $2.50 and up."īroadway Land Company sells Lafayette Hotel to developer H. "When in Long Beach, stop at the Lafayette Hotel, the home of comfort and refinement. ![]() The hotel was and is considered one of the finest examples of Art Deco architecture in the city. The Lafayette Cafe on the Broadway side is striking with an all-marble store front. Breakfast to be served at hotel cafe.ĭesigned by Arthur and Cecil Schilling, masters of the Art Deco style, the Lafayette's facade features monumental Italian stylized male and female figures, winged ram's head, hanging garlands and a wrought iron marquise with a neon sign. Hotel Lafayette will open Monday, October 28 at 7am. The name was chosen as a memorial to the first Spanish owner of the site on which the building is located. Hotel de Cota (later named Lafayette) to open July 1. ![]() Hotel will have 100 rooms and six stores on the ground level. Investment of $300,000 for the five-story building (plus mezzanine and solarium tower), north of the Campbell Apartments and across the street from the new Broadlind Hotel. The construction is of steel frame with reinforced concrete walls, and is 140 feet high.īroadway Land Company to erect hotel on East Broadway at Linden. The building's Spanish Baroque style is typical of the pre-Art Deco architecture of the time, with beautiful glazed cast terra-cotta ornamentation and balconies. Campbell, local capitalist, the apartments offer luxurious homes for the city's elite, providing hotel and maid services, garage and lobby attendants. The Campbell Apartment Building is completed and furnished at a total cost of almost $700,000. The 82-unit Campbell Apartment House, nearing completion at 130 Linden Avenue, is part of $10.8 million building boom in Long Beach. City of Long Beach to buy Southern Pacific property from Linden to Alamitos, and from Broadway to alley south, for park and city auditorium.
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