Saturday at the Heritage Square Museum and "Sound of Music" sing-a-long, Hollywood Bowl

Colleen enjoyed a Windsor Square - Hancock Park Historical Society sponsored tout to the Heritage Square Museum.  This is a living history architecture museum located besides the Arroyo Seco Parkway in the Montecito Heights neighborhood of L.A.  We enjoyed the docent led tour through these historical homes and buildings.  The buildings were moved to this site because they risked demolition between 1969 and 2005.
 

The Palms Depot was build in 1875 and used until 1953.  It serves as the reception area for the museum. 

The Mt. Pleasant House was built in 1876 by lumber baron William Hayes Perry.  It was built in Boyle Heights.  It was  built in the Victorian Italianate style.

The Valley Knudsen Garden Residence - Shaw House was built in the Second Empire style with a French mansard roof.  It is now outfitted as a home and doctors office with all the 1880's furniture and equipment.

The Longfellow-Hastings Octagon House was built in 1893 by Gilbert Longfellow.  The rooms are angular with a center area that looks all the way up to the windows on the third floor.

Our very knowledgeable docent.



The John J. Ford House was built in 1887 as part of a large tract of simple middle-class homes in downtown L.A.  The wood carver owner decorated the mantle and other areas with his works.



The Lincoln Avenue Methodist Church was built in 1897 in Pasadena.  It was designed in the Carpenter Gothic and Queen Anne styles.

The Hale House was built in 1887 by George W. Morgan, a land speculator and developer at the foot of Mount Washington near the museum.  It is an outstanding example of the Queen Anne and Eastlake Styles.  It was moved to Figueroa Street and purchased by James G. Hale in 1906.  It remained in the family until it was acquire by the museum in 1970.  The exterior colors were reproduced from chips of the original colors.  The interior has been restored to represent the rooms as they have appeared in 1899.

The newest building was built in the style of a 1890's pharmacy.  It is filled with a museum like collection of a original items from that period including cosmetics, medicines and other items one would buy at a pharmacy...plus a soda fountain. 

In the evening the Friend Family gathered to celebrate brother Patrick's birthday at the Hollywood bowl for a picnic and a "Sound of Music" sing-a-long.  We sang, cheered, booed the Nazi's and hissed the Baroness and clapped when the climbed every mountain on their way to Switzerland.