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The outward sweep of the entrance stairway, the sculpted brackets under the eaves, the slanted bay windows, and the narrow Corinthian columns are characteristic of its Victorian Italianate style. In 1975, the house was moved from 1315 Mount Pleasant Street to the museum grounds, and restoration was begun by the Colonial Dames Society of America. Heritage Square Museum continues to be a work-in-progress and a challenging one at that.
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Other specialized living history events, lectures, and items of historical interest are given on a periodic basis. The long-term vision for the site was to be a living museum featuring homes, a church, train depot, bandstand and “downtown” area with a bank, general store, ice cream parlor, firehouse, restaurant, trolley barn and transportation museum. The story of the museum began during the rapid growth of Los Angeles during the 1960s, when 19th century buildings were quickly being demolished to make way for new development. When the last two residences on Bunker Hill, “Donovan's Castle” and the “Saltbox,” faced demolition, the City of Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission (a city agency) sought to save them. They hoped to move the homes down the hill to an open space between Olive and Hill Streets next to Angels Flight railway. Los Angeles Councilman Art Snyder then proposed moving the homes to a strip of parkland alongside the Arroyo Seco Parkway in Montecito Heights.
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Designed by renowned architect Ezra F. Kysor, the home contains detailing to convey the wealth and social status of the family. These elements include Corinthian columns, fine hardwood floors, a sweeping main staircase, and marble fireplace mantles. It was built in the fashionable neighborhood (in the 19th century) of Boyle Heights. The Perry's Mount Pleasant House was considered the finest and most expensive residence to arrive in mid-1870s Los Angeles. Shortly after the move, the house was used as a movie set for a film depicting a house bombed in a war. The house was purchased by James G. Hale and his newlywed, Beret “Bessie” Hovelsrud, in 1901.
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Heritage Square Museum is a living history and open-air architecture museum located beside the Arroyo Seco Parkway in the Montecito Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, in the southern Arroyo Seco area. The living history museum shows the story of development in Southern California through historical architectural examples. Hale House is a Queen Anne style Victorian mansion built in 1887 in the Highland Park section of northeast Los Angeles, California. It has been described as "the most photographed house in the entire city", and "the most elaborately decorated".[2] In 1966, it was declared a Historic-Cultural Monument, and in 1972 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The house was relocated in 1970 to the Heritage Square Museum in Montecito Heights where it remains open to the public. The house was sold many times and was moved from 4501 to 4425 North Pasadena Avenue (now Figueroa Street) before being purchased by James G. Hale in 1906. It remained in the Hale Family until it was acquired by the museum in 1970, as a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument (No. 40). The exterior colors of Hale House were reproduced from chips of the original colors found on the house during restoration. The interior has been restored to represent the rooms as they may have appeared in 1899.
Hale House the Crown Jewel of Heritage Square Museum
This residence, purchased by James and Bessie Hale about 1901, is a wood frame structure having exterior clapboard siding accented with fish scale shingles and cast plaster ornament around the main, east facade windows and pediments. Other notable features include a veranda at the northeast corner having turned wood posts with curved wood bracket caps and milled ballusters and an ornamental iron rail on its roof. It has brick chimneys with incised geometric detail and corbelled projections at top and a second floor turret window at the southeast corner, also curved wood brackets at the second floor cornice. The Cultural Heritage Commission simply did not have funding for such a project. They successfully raised the funds and were able to move the two Bunker Hill homes to the Montecito Heights site. Sadly, however, after all the trouble to trying to save and move the two structures to their new haven, they were destroyed in a fire.
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Bessie kept the house, opened it up to boarders, and became something of a real estate maven in early 20th century L.A. You will taste the difference in everything from our house-made sauces, our desserts and our made from scratch potato pancakes. Built in 1876 for William H. Perry, lumber magnate, organizer of the Los Angeles Gas Company, and eventual president of the Los Angeles Water Company, The Perry House house stood at Pleasant Avenue (hence its other known name of Mount Pleasant) in Boyle Heights. In 1888 the house was purchased by Stephen Hubbell, the first treasurer of Los Angeles and a founder of the University of Southern California — and the man who donated the property now known as MacArthur Park to the city. It’s also been called a must-see destination for any serious fan of The Doors. Over time the Palms Depot fell into a severe state of disrepair and was scheduled to be demolished.
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Money from fund-raising (which must compete with cancer research and feeding the hungry) is always in short supply. Some buildings, such as the Lincoln Avenue Methodist Church, have patiently stood in significant need of restoration for decades and cannot be opened for interior tours. Even the beautifully restored homes, as with any home (especially those more than a century old), are a constant maintenance challenge. The Queen Anne-meets-Carpenter Gothic cottage was built in 1899 at the Huntington Memorial Hospital for one Dr. Osborne and was designed to hold two horses and one carriage.
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The exterior and interior of the house is richly adorned with much of Ford’s unique carving work. Probably the the most recognized building at Heritage Square — and certainly the most colorful — the Hale House dates back to 1887. Built for land baron George W. Moran, it was originally located at 4501 North Pasadena Avenue (now known as Figueroa Street) on the border of Highland Park and Mount Washington — not too far from where it sits today. Eight historic buildings from the Victorian heyday of Los Angeles are preserved along the banks of the Arroyo Seco in Montecito Heights. The Mount Pleasant House was built in 1876 by prominent businessman and lumber baron William Hayes Perry.
Today it serves as the museum’s workshop, but there are plans to restore it as a working carriage barn. In 1969, to help stop the widespread destruction of historic Victorian homes across Los Angeles, a group of preservation-minded folks formed the Cultural Heritage Foundation at the request of the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission. This group, in turn set up the Heritage Square Museum, a place where buildings of significant historic value could be preserved, restored, and showcased. On December 7 & 8, 2013 Heritage Square introduces guests to nostalgia through the ages at an annual event called Holiday Lamplight Celebration. Witness the past become the present to the glow of Victorian homes lit by the aura of lamplight.
Costumed actors reminisce about Christmases of their youth and how they compare to today’s traditions in this annual celebration honoring the museum’s existence. Tickets are limited for the event (see heritagesquare.org), but you can do an incredibly good deed by making a small donation, joining or giving a gift membership to your favorite California museum this holiday. Buying merchandise from their catalogs and gift stores also helps support them. While Salvation Army bell ringers volunteer for special causes, the state’s historical museums are often overlooked as charity recipients.
Hale's niece agreed to sell the house for $1 if it could be moved from the site. In July 1970, the house was lifted from its foundation and moved to the nearby Heritage Square Museum in Highland Park. The move cost $10,300 and an additional $3,000 to raise wires so the house could pass under.
It wasn’t until the following year that two more rescued residences, the Hale House (originally located not far away in Highland Park) and the Valley Knudsen Home (originally located in Lincoln Heights), were moved to Heritage Square and the site was opened to the public. This picturesque structure is an outstanding example of the late Victorian period in Los Angeles. Its prime significance is that it perhaps best embodies the essence of, or the most typical features of, this historical style in one given example. The building incorporates the ornate carving of wood, both inside and out, that is fast disappearing.
James Hale met Bessie, a farm girl from Nebraska, at the Pio Pico House she was waitressing in. The two fell in love, got married, and purchased the Hale House to live in; however, a few years later, the couple separated and Hale died from a heart attack on August 15, 1921 at age 51. She operated the house as a boarding house until the late 1950s and lived there until she died in 1966 at age 97.
