Title supplied by cataloger. Charles Fletcher Lummis founded the Southwest Museum in 1907. The museum moved from Downtown Los Angeles to its current location at 234 Museum Drive in Mt. Washington in 1914, and has been there ever since. The 1914 building was designed by architects Sumner P. Hunt and Silas Reese Burns. It became part of the Autry National Center in 2004. The building is registered on the National Register of Historic Places #92001270 The Southwest Museum, viewed through trees from the street below, sits on top of the hill at 234 Museum Drive on Mt. Washington. The main building is flanked by two towers. At the bottom of the hill is the Casa Adobe. The adobe building was donated to the museum in 1925 by the Hispanic Society of California and modeled after the San Diego County landmark, Rancho Guajome, a pre-1850s Spanish California rancho.
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1 photographic print :b&w ;13 x 18 cm. on board. Photographic prints
Southwest Museum of the American Indian Museums--California--Los Angeles Museum buildings--California--Los Angeles Native Americans--Museums--California--Los Angeles Architecture--California--Los Angeles--Spanish influences Historic sites--California--Los Angeles Lummis, Charles Fletcher,1859-1928 Hunt, Sumner P Burns, Silas Reese
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