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Heritage Square
Museum
3800 Homer Street
Los Angeles, California 90031
Tel.
323-225-2700
Where History Comes Alive!
Heritage Square Wish List for "The Yard"
The Museum’s educational objective is to interpret life in Southern California in the 19th and early 20th centuries. As an open-air museum, we communicate this information through living exhibits. By combining careful research, attention to detail, and talented interpreters, we bring history to life.
Our visitors may learn how the Hales and their predecessors lived by visiting inside the Hale House. In the same way, they may learn from The Yard exhibit (south of the Ford House) more of what everyday life was like in urban Los Angeles in the late 19th century—the scent of the orange grove, the feel of raw dirt, and the fluttering of clothes on a clothesline establish a vivid, living picture of the past.
In order to continue the development and interpretation of this exhibit, we are asking our visitors and members for assistance. Construction materials or funding is needed to build such items as a privy, garbage barrel, ashcan, chicken coop, rabbit hutch and/or stable. The Yard needs a minimum about 30 stakes for tomatoes and pole beans. They can be 2 x 2 wooden stakes by 8 feet long (can be ripped from 2 x 4s), nursery stakes about 6 ft high, 7-10 ft bamboo stakes, (minimum 3/4 inch round), oak stakes or cedar stakes 4-6 ft long. Some of these items are not specific, but will be hidden by plant growth. Additional supports, such bamboo teepees, bamboo spirals, metal spirals, are needed, as well as plant matter. For the plant matter, The Yard needs 4 inch seedlings of heirloom veggies and herbs are requested. (No seeds please). Seedlings may include: chiogga beet, white onion sets, Italian button onion, Tall Telephone pole peas, Blue Lake bush bean, Kentucky Wonder bush bean, Danvers carrots, Nantes carrots, Cinderella pumpkin, pumpkin, lemon cucumbers, Italian Trombone squash (Zucchetta Rampicante), Black Beauty eggplant. Herbs needed for planting include basil, thyme, coriander-cilantro leaf, parsley, marjoram, tarragon, California bay, and fennel. Finally, 6 bales of alfalfa hay, polypropylene cord for tying tomatoes, 1 or 2 packs, tomato fertilizer (Dr. Earth), and gopher cages are needed.
With your assistance, The Yard exhibit will continue to evolve to illustrate what societal aspirations, culture, environments and lifestyles were truly like in late 19th century urban Los Angeles.
Heritage Square Museum's Victorian Fence Project
In partnership with the City of Los Angeles, Department of Recreation and Parks and the Bricklayers & Allied Craft Workers Local # 4 Joint Apprenticeship & Training Program, with funding from the City of Los Angeles, Beautification Grant Program, the Arroyo Seco Neighborhood Council, and the Lincoln Heights Neighborhood Council, Phase I of the Heritage Square Museum Victorian Fence Project has been completed!
With Phase I completed, the museum can now concentrate efforts on starting Phase II this year, and Phase III in the near future. Eventually, the new fence will replace the entirety of the barbed-wire fencing at the museum with an entrance worthy of our Victorian-era structures. We thank all the donors, museum volunteers and the museum members who made Phase I possible and ask for the continued support from our members, visitors and public officials of this important improvement and beautification project.
The Community Beautification Grant (CB GRANT) is a competitive, annual, matching grant for community-based organizations that would like to implement beautification projects.