Virginia Hotel

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Two men walk to the entrance on the bach side of the Virginia Hotel, Ocean Boulevard at Magnolia in Long Beach. The hotel rises six stories, has two wings, and contains 400 rooms.The Virginia Hotel, on the south side of Ocean Boulevard at Magnolia, opened on April 1, 1908, and was the social center of the area for many years. Originally named the Bixby Hotel, it was renamed the Virginia Hotel after a construction accident in 1906 resulted in fatalities. The hotel did not survive the stock market crash of 1929 and closed on October 10, 1932. The building was demolished after the March 10, 1933 earthquake. The architects were John C. Austin and Frederick G. Brown. The landscape architect was Belle S. Angier.