Bluff Park, Long Beach, California

and Belmont Veterans Memorial Pier Bluff Park is a 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. ==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 • Long Beach Monastery, 3361 E. Ocean Blvd., (affiliation: Mahayana, Ch'an (Zen), Dharma Realm Buddhist Association) • Irving Gill house, 2749 E. Ocean Boulevard • Weathering Heights • Roland Swaffield house, architecture by L. Milton Wolf • La Villa de la Luna, built 1923 • Southwind House, built for Dr. A.C. Sellery, co-founder of Seaside Hospital; designed by William Horace Austin, 1913 • Beans Reardon House • Clarence J. Smale • Roland Coate • Meyer & Holler ==Gallery==

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 ==See also==