Laura S. Verbryck, LEED AP, DRE#02094219

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Laura is a native San Diegan, loving art, architecture, cities and historic preservation from an early age. While in college she regularly escaped to Los Angeles to explore the architecture and volunteer as a docent and board member for Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hollyhock House. When finalizing her internship study at the National Park Service, she was pleasantly surprised that her assignment was to write one of two upcoming nominations for architecturally significant properties in the LA area, Hollyhock House.

After receiving her degree in Urban Planning with a minor in Studio Art from UC San Diego, she relocated to Long Beach and has lived there ever since while painstakingly restoring her 1930’s Spanish Colonial home. She spent years volunteering for Long Beach Heritage, serving as Board Secretary, on the committee for the annual Home Tour and as the Loft Walk event chair, a popular yearly event that let participants access private lofts in a private party style event. She now splits her time between Long Beach and her condo in the mid-century mecca of Palm Springs, exploring the architecture and staring off at the mountains while enjoying the dry heat of the desert.

Laura has had a wide variety of experiences in many areas of the built environment, from Architecture, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Construction and Historic Preservation to the Investment and Property Management of income properties and vacation rentals, of which she owns multiple throughout the Southern California area. Her homes are full of mid-century and other unique furniture which her and her husband procured over years of searching flea markets, online and local vintage shops. Laura believes that architecture is art that should be preserved and restored not only for the use and enjoyment of current and future generations, but because it is the most ecological and sustainable type of architecture that exists.