Heritage Square

Saturday we drove to Pasadena to go and see the Heritage Square Museum. It's basically a collection of turn of the century buildings that have been saved and moved to this location. Luckily, in California everything is mostly made out of wood which makes relocation possible. Otherwise, who knows how many additional buildings we would have lost over the last hundred years.

This is the Hale House, a Victorian era mansion built in 1885 in the Highland Park section of northeast Los Angeles. It cost less than $4,000 to build and was done in the Queen Anne, Eastlake and Gothic styles. It was moved to Heritage Square in 1972.

Built circa 1887, the Palms Depot became part of the Pacific Electric Railway in 1911 and continued to provide service until 1953. It has been in several movies including Laurel and Hardy, The Little Rascals, and Abbott and Costello.



The houses were all decorated for Christmas by local Interior Designers. The majority of the houses were done in the Victorian era but this one had an Art Deco theme inside.

This is the Richard Shaw House, it has a French Mansard styled roof which is unusual for a working-middle class home on the West coast.

The houses were beautiful and I'm glad they were saved from demolition!