The heavy drapes also worked to keep the house cool. Blocking the sun was also important as the carpets and upholstery would have been coloured with vegetable dyes not chemical dyes and would have faded badly with sun exposure. They would also protect unpainted woodwork and furniture from drying and fading.
Thank you for this video! I live in Torrance California, and sometimes I pass the banning mansion, and always wanted to take a tour of it, but never thought about the history of the Banning historical museum and today I thought about it we go on RU-vid and see if there’s any videos that shows photos or videos of the property so I want to say thank you for the history of the Banning museum
Excellent video about a house that was not on my radar.. I enjoy learning about new places. Thanks for posting this My father always said that he wanted a house with a crow's nest as a great place to sit and read.
Both the house and its location answer some questions I've had about the development of LA toward Torrance and Long Beach. And now I'll have to make a pilgrimage to the Banning House to see it in person.
Wow - this is why we subscribe to THIS HOUSE! 🏠 I’ve lived in SoCal most of my life and never knew this history - or this House still being there! I’ll visit this summer for sure! The FIRST eucalyptus trees in California?! They are my favorite trees! I knew the history of Banning and the Port of LA - a great story - but what a tragic and ironic death. 🏠🏠🏠🏠🏠👌🏽
I’d love to have a crow’s nest in my house! I’m so glad that this gorgeous house wasn’t torn down! Greek Revival and Federal are my favorite styles of architecture after Georgian. Give me clean lines and simple but elegant furnishings any day of the week!
I love this home. Not a fan of heavy drapes. I enjoy the historical nuggets of information you incorporate in your shows. Nice work. And thank you very much.
I visited this maybe 5, possibly 10 years ago. Struck by the Greek Revival architecture - not at all Californian, and fairly unique for the area as there's not a lot left from this time period. It's really pretty far out of LA, more in Long Beach (and not too far from the USS Iowa). It was a hot day, but the house stayed pretty cool. There are a lot of period furnishings and some of those wall coverings are familiar, but pretty sure the 3rd floor was off limits and certainly the cupola was. Feels like it was free then or a very small fee - and visitors film was pretty good too. As is often the case, I was the only visitor and and (again often) the ladies were just sweet as could be and would walk through answering any question on your personal tour. If you enjoy this sort of house, it's a very good stop.
I think imagining LA without its disastrous transport infrastructure and with a functioning transit system instead would be a very pleasant exercise in alternative history!
I like it. It's classy and not overdone for the era. It's rather "new" for a Greek Revival. When I saw the thumbnail, I guessed that the house was 30 or 40 years older than it actually is!
I grew-up in Ontario California, 30 miles east of L.A. In elementary school we took field trips to "The Old Adobe" in Chino - technically it's "The Slaughter House." Slaughter was the family's name, not a verb. I guess they didn't want there to be any misunderstandings. "Yep, we took the kids to the Slaughter House today!" It's my understanding that it is still a museum. Besides being a functioning ranch built in the 1850s it was a Butterfield Stagecoach stop. I loved going there as a kid. I think that's what gave me an interest in history.I haven't been there for over 60 years. I'd love to see someone do a video on it.
Another dresser and mirror of the same vintage as the one from my family! Any idea about its vintage? Oh, and the headboard of bedroom set my sister now has had a message painted on the back reading “scarlet fever 1870.”
I went there during a 5th grade field trip. They didnt let us see a room because they said his son had an accident there and the carpet was stained. I wonder if they meant poop or blood. The drum barracks were also cool. You didnt show the stables. They have carriages in there with a old workshop for the horses.
Every room and Banning remind me of The 7th Guest Someone decided to paint everything white…that needs to be restored. 7th Guest was about killing children, btw
ALTHOUGH I DON'T LIKE CALIFORNIA, AND I CERTAINLY DON'T LIKE L.A., ANOTHER NON-DEMOLITION MAKES THIS TURKEY GOBBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SO HIP HIP, HURRAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
