Metropolitan Building

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First Street in Long Beach looking east past Pine Avenue. As the sign indicates, the Metropolitan Building with its clock tower, corner of 1st Street and Pine Avenue, is home to the California National Bank of Long Beach. Next to the bank is a hotel. Behind the Metropolitan Building is the tall Security Trust and Savings Bank building. The Metropolitan Building, National Register of Historic Places no. 1990001432, was designed by Los Angeles architects Robert F. Train and Robert E. Williams in 1906. The clock tower with its six-foot-diameter clock face was added in 1907. The structure is in French Renaissance Revival style and utilizes pressed yellow brick on the street sides and common red brick on the remaining two sides. The Security Trust and Savings Bank building, known as the Security Pacific National Bank Building, is Long Beach Historic Landmark no. 16.52.470. Built between 1923 and 1925, it was designed by architects Curlett and Beelman., it is a classic Beaux Arts building.