Built in 1925 (Beaux-Arts). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1896.
From the record
“The Insurance Exchange Building, formerly known as the Middough Building and the Middough Brothers Building, is a registered historic building located on Broadway in downtown Long Beach, California, USA. The eight-story Beaux Arts building was one of the largest office buildings in downtown Long Beach when it opened in 1925.”
Wikipedia article Insurance Exchange Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 616 National Register listings published here for Los Angeles County · listed in 2003 · category: Building · built in 1925, Beaux-Arts, by Harvey H. Lochridge.
National Register reference number.03000002- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Then and now
1896 to 1901
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
5 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
18961901
Fires near this property
113 since 2005
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 113 fires within 5 miles of Middough Brothers-Insurance Exchange Building
between 2005 and 2020, burning about 76 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 were recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
77
Equipment and vehicle use
12
Smoking
12
Debris and open burning
4
Arson/incendiarism
4
Misuse of fire by a minor
3
Recreation and ceremony
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Date
Cause
Size
Reported by
Name on the report
26 September 2005
Equipment and vehicle use
1.0 acres
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
18 September 2007
Misuse of fire by a minor
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
13 September 2006
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
4 August 2017
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
26 August 2009
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1.1 acres
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
25 August 2009
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
24 August 2009
Equipment and vehicle use
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
24 August 2009
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
5 workings within 5 miles of Middough Brothers-Insurance Exchange Building: 4 past producers, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Limestone, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Long Beach, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2004: 3 flood, 2 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 funnel cloud.
The reports record 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
A small tornado swept through eastern sections of Long Beach. The tornado developed over Los Altos Park and travelled northeast to Studebaker Road. The most significant damage occurred to a Lucky's Supermarket where a 60 foot by 60 foot section of their roof collapsed. Also...Cubberley Elementary School lost a section of its roof. Other minor damage occurred from fallen trees and power lines. One minor injury was reported.
The combination of heavy rain and clogged storm drains resulted in urban flooding in the community of Long Beach. The Long Beach Freeway (Interstate 710) was closed for 6 hours between Willow Street and Pacific Coast Highway.
Strong thunderstorm winds produced damage across parts of the Long Beach area. At a car dealership, the roof of a couple of service bays was blown off. Next door, a 600 square-foot section of roof was torn off a aircraft instrument company.
United States Geological Survey topographic
sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then
testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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