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The homes in Carroll Park
range from large to small. Many of them, like this
bungalow style home, have been
carefully restored
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John Carroll, the developer who founded the Carroll Park neighborhood
in the early 1900s,
laid out the streets in a curving, almost circular pattern to stop farmers from driving
their loaded farm wagons through the neighborhood on their way to the
market in downtown Long Beach -- or so the story goes. In another
explanation of the street plan, the story is that Carroll, who had
lived in Shanghai for years, drew on Chinese philosophy for the
pattern. Whatever the truth, today's Carroll Park residents
enjoy winding, tree-lined streets with little traffic through this
neighborhood.
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While many of the homes
initially built in Carroll Park were large and impressive, over
the last century smaller homes and more modern homes have been
added to the mix in the neighborhood. Only a few of the
original Victorian style homes remain. Carroll's own home
has been replaced with a church at Fourth and Junipero. |
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Yes, there is a park in
Carroll Park, but it is not at the center of this quiet
neighborhood. John Carroll designed the central circle for
homes and placed the parks-- and originally there were 4 of them
-- at the corners. |
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