 Residential Living in the Roaring Twenties #3 - 06.08 @ 3pm (Sold Out)Step back in time to experience the lives and lifestyles of those who would call Long Beach home in the 1920s. Oil field workers, shipyard workers, filmmakers, and wealthy seasonal visitors all lived and worked side by side in the East Village of 1920s Long Beach. Join us for a rarely offered tour of the Lafayette Hotel, Campbell Building, Metropolitan Hotel, Broadlind Hotel and their interiors.
ACCESSIBILITY
While the street level parts of the tour are ADA accessible, only the Lafayette, International Building, and Campbell Buildings are ADA accessible. | |
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 Select Great Homes Tour - 06.09 @ 12pm (Sold Out)Select Great Homes Tour – 06/9 12 – 3 pm
Experience the diverse architecture of Long Beach with a tour of some excellent examples of Craftsman, Spanish Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival and A Newly Rediscovered Killingsworth Mid-Century Modern home.
These architectural gems will take you back to 1913 and on up to 1958.
The homes have been lovingly furnished with antique and/or period appropriate pieces, some of which are totally one of a kind.
The unique original features of the homes demonstrate the craftsmanship of bygone eras such as intricate mouldings, leaded glass windows, ornate murals, charming tiled fireplaces, and even a milk door or two.
The houses have steps and/or stairs and may not be ADA accessible. | |
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 Rancho Los Cerritos (Wed - Sun)RANCHO LOS CERRITOS Address: 4600 Virginia Road Long Beach, CA 90807 Rancho Los Cerritos is located on Virginia Road, north of Roosevelt Boulevard and west of Long Beach Boulevard, in the Bixby Knolls neighborhood of Long Beach.
Tours:
The Rancho offers docent-led tours, self-guided tours with a printed brochure, or the Clio app. Docent-led tours of the house and gardens are available on a first come first served basis or by reserving a time on the website.
For architecture week a special 20-minute tour that complements our regular tours will be offered. This tour explores the Monterey Colonial style of architecture - a blending of 19th-century fashions of the East Coast with the traditional Mexican aesthetics and building materials of the West Coast - and the Mission Revival Style in which the home was remodeled in 1930.
Hours:
Wednesday through Sunday, 1-5pm with extended hours on Saturday, 10-5
Parking:
Parking at Rancho Los Cerritos is always FREE. The main parking lot is located across from RLC’s entry gates. From Virginia Road turn left after Virginia Country Club and just before RLC’s entry gates. Limited parking, including accessible spaces, is available in the forecourt parking lot. Drive through RLC’s entry gates and turn right to enter the parking lot. Accessible parking spaces are also located in front of the Visitor Center. Drive through RLC’s entry gates and turn left.
Check-in:
When you arrive at Rancho Los Cerritos you must check-in at the Visitor Center. From RLC’s main entry gates take the pedestrian path as it curves to the left. | |
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 Rancho Los Alamitos (Wed - Sun)Rancho Los Alamitos sits atop the ancestral lands of the Tongva people and their village of Puvuun'nga. During the Spanish colonial period, it was part of California's largest and earliest land concession (grant). It was later ranched by Mexican and American settlers and their workers and tenants from all over the world. Today, the Rancho explores the interaction between people and place, culture and environment, past and present, to create a greater understanding of the evolution of Southern California and its place in today's world. The site's history and the lives of its owners and occupants make it a perfect metaphor for the Southern California experience. The 7.5-acre historic resource comprises
The historic ranch house with a circa 1800 adobe home completely encapsulated within later additions over the following 130 years;
Four acres of nationally significant gardens designed by prominent early 20th-century landscape architects and horticulturists, including Olmsted Brothers, Florence Yoch, William Hertrich, Paul Howard, and Allen Chickering;
A barnyard of early 20th-century barns and farm buildings stocked with farm animals, including a working blacksmith shop;
A visitor center, a museum shop, and a research archive.
During architecture week, the Rancho will offer two guided tours. One of the historic ranch house and the other of a dozen different garden spaces throughout the site showcasing landscape architectural trends of the early 20th century.
Please make advance reservations for these tours.
Enter at the Bixby Hill residential security gate at the intersection of East Anaheim Road and Palo Verde Avenue. Last admittance through the guard gate is 4:30 pm.
When you arrive, please check-in at the welcome desk in the Rancho Center.
The last tour of the historic Ranch House begins at about 4:00 pm
Admission and parking are free.
Accessible Parking
Accessible parking spaces are available in the parking lot by the entrance to the Rancho Center.
Entering the Historic Site
All museum entrances and floors are accessible to visitors using wheeled devices or who have mobility difficulties. The maximum clearance to enter the historic Ranch House is 32” and suitable wheelchairs are loaned free-of-charge.
The gardens are accessible.
Most are navigable by wheelchair. The historic Cutting Garden, Cypress Patio, Oleander Walk, and Rose Garden are accessible only by stairs and can be viewed from the driveway and Geranium Walk.
Accessible Restrooms
Every restroom at the Rancho is wheelchair accessible.
The historic ranch house with a circa 1800 adobe home completely encapsulated within later additions over the following 130 years;
Four acres of nationally significant gardens designed by prominent early 20th-century landscape architects and horticulturists, including Olmsted Brothers, Florence Yoch, William Hertrich, Paul Howard, and Allen Chickering;
A barnyard of early 20th-century barns and farm buildings stocked with farm animals, including a working blacksmith shop;
A visitor center, a museum shop, and a research archive.
Explore Rancho Los Alamitos and its architectural history with a knowledgeable guide.
Docent-guided tours of the Ranch House are available throughout the afternoon between 1:00 and 5:00 p.m., Wednesday through Sunday. Please make an advance reservation for a house tour. Gardens and barnyard are self-guided, unless a docent is requested. | |
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