Jefferson County Historical Society, Museum, and Rothschild House [WA]

Description

The Society maintains a Museum and the Rothschild House. The Museum, housed in the restored 1892 Port Townsend City Hall building's former municipal court room, fire hall and jail spaces, presents exhibits illustrating the lively history of local communities born in waterfront forests over 150 years ago. The 1868 Rothschild House invites visitors to step back to the 1800s; it is virtually unchanged from a hundred years ago.

The society offers research library access, tours, educational programs, lectures, and occasional recreational and educational events; the museum offers exhibits; the house offers exhibits and tours.

San Diego Historical Society and Museum of San Diego History [CA]

Description

The Museum of San Diego History is the headquarters of the San Diego Historical Society. Visitors will find a collection of exhibitions that chronicle San Diego's diverse history.

The Society also maintains the Junipero Serra Museum and the Marston House Museum.

The society offers educational programs, lectures, tours, and occasional recreational and educational events; the museum offers exhibits, tours, and research library access.

Dallas Heritage Village at Old City Park

Description

Dallas Heritage Village is a living history museum portraying life in North Texas from 1840–1910. The museum is composed of 38 historic structures and boasts a working Civil War era farm, a traditional Jewish household, elegant Victorian homes, a school, a church, and commercial buildings.

The village offers tours, exhibits, living history demonstrations and reenactments, workshops, and other educational and recreational events.

Westport South Beach Historical Society and Westport Maritime Museum [WA]

Description

The Society operates a museum housed in a 1939 Coast Guard Lifeboat Station. Exhibits in the main building explore the Coast Guard on the South Beach, cranberry growing, life on the edge of the ocean, whales and whaling, and lighthouses.

The society offers occasional recreational and educational events; the museum offers exhibits and tours.

Santa Barbara County Historic Courthouse

Description

For almost 160 years, this site has been the home of local government and a place of civic pride and celebration. The County Board of Supervisors caused the construction of the now-historic courthouse in 1926, after the smaller Greek-Revival courthouse was damaged in an earthquake the previous year. Visitors from around the world come to see the courthouse, mural room, and grounds.

The courthouse offers tours.

Dunsmuir House and Gardens

Description

Built in 1899, Oakland's Dunsmuir Historic Estate features a 37-room Neoclassical Revival mansion set upon 50 acres of landscaped grounds. The estate also includes a carriage house and a pavilion overlooking a pond and a gazebo, and plays host to a variety of educational, cultural, entertainment events throughout the year.

The house offers tours and educational and recreational events, including occasional living history events.

Victorian Preservation Center and Cohen-Bray House [CA]

Description

The mission of the Center is to interpret the East Bay in the later 19th century. The Center seeks to accomplish this goal by promoting the study of material culture of the era and the social and economic life of Oakland, the East Bay, and the San Francisco Bay Area as represented by the Cohen Bray House. The uniqueness of this house is that it is still lived in by members of the original family. With the help of the friends and the professionals on the board, they have made the effort to preserve and protect the original interiors. Visitors will find the furniture; wallpaper; pictures; rugs; and personal items such as diaries, shopping lists and wedding presents are still in their places. Tours also include family stories of the neighborhood and what life was like since the house was built in 1884.

The house offers tours and educational programs.

National Automobile Museum [NV]

Description

The Museum presents displays recreating four authentic street scenes, representing each quarter of the 20th century, with autos, artifacts, and sounds from each era. Street scenes also display building facades and a timeline of events chronicling the history of the automobile. The Museum also presents changing exhibits.

The museum offers exhibits, tours, film screenings, symposiums, workshops, and educational and recreational events.

Anderson Valley Historical Museum

Description

The Museum is centrally located a half-mile northwest of Boonville in the Con Creek Schoolhouse. Built in 1891, it taught children of lumberjacks and sheep farmers for almost 90 years before closing in 1979, when it was purchased by the Community Services District with an agreement that it would be leased to the Society for use as a museum. Today, the museum shares relics and information about Anderson Valley's colorful past, including the original native residents up to Boontling, the whimsical local language once spoken widely throughout the valley.

The museum offers exhibits.