California Heritage Museum
2612 Main St
Santa Monica, CA 90405
310-392-8537
http://web.mac.com/calmuseum/Site/Home.html
Weds-Sun: 11a-4p. Last tour at 3:30p
General Admission: $8
Seniors / Students: $5
Children under twelve: Free
Limited free parking exists adjacent to the Museum. Paid parking is available in the beach lots and coin lot #11, located north of Ocean Park Boulevard off Main Street.
The building that houses the California Heritage Museum’s exhibits is as interesting and unique as the exhibits themselves.
In the late nineteenth century the renowned architect Sumner P. Hunt built the home for Roy Jones, son of the founder of Santa Monica, Senator John Percival Jones. City Trustees granted Jones a permit to dig a cesspool on April 16, 1894, marking the first step taken in the construction of the house. One of Sumner P. Hunt's earliest surviving buildings, the Roy Jones Home is designed in a style in transition from the elaborate Victorian Queen Anne Revival, to the simpler American Colonial or Georgian Revival style.
The permanent collection features Monterey Furniture, California Rainbow Pottery, a wide variety of California tile, and many other period collectible pieces representing California's rich history.
The Museum’s “period rooms” include a 1930’s kitchen modeled after Merle Norman’s, the businesswoman who began her cosmetics career in her Santa Monica home kitchen. The Museum's pantry and kitchen also host changing pottery and kitchenware exhibits and have included the brightly glazed production ware of California companies including Bauer, Catalina, Vernon, Pacific and Sascha Brastoff.
Sundays: the Museum hosts a Farmer's Market in its parking lot and landscaped grounds. Dozens of farmers provide beautiful and healthy fresh fruit, vegetable and flowers at reasonable prices.
Contact the museum for its latest information and special events.
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