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Leonis Adobe & Plummer House Museum
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Categories: Museums, Landmarks & Historical Buildings
Neighborhood: Woodland Hills23537 Calabasas Rd
Calabasas, CA 91302
(818) 222-6511
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5 reviews for Leonis Adobe & Plummer House Museum
We walked over to the Leonis Adobe after getting cupcakes at SusieCakes. It's in a part of Calabasas with buildings that remind me of an old Western frontier town. The Leonis property gives you a sense of what a ranch in San Fernando Valley would have looked like in the 1800s. Miguel Leonis, was an early land settler who came over from the Pyrenees (he was basque) and later became known as the King of Calabasas. It was the first historical cultural monument designated by the city of Los Angeles.
You enter through the Plummer House, which was moved from its location in Hollywood to Calabasas in 1983. The Plummer House is the oldest house in Hollywood. The Plummer House contains a gift shop, old pictures of the local area, and a few exhibits (the clothing of the Leonis family). Once you exit the Plummer House, you can explore the grounds on your own.
The two story Leonis home has furnished rooms and portraits of the Leonis family. You can see what their kitchen looked like (roughly), the bedroom of Mrs. Leonis (she died there) with its red velvet canopy bed, the pantry, etc. The house may be haunted? Someone claims to have seen the shadowy figure upstairs, possibly Mrs. Leonis.
They have a barn with old buggies, blacksmith shop, outhouses (eww), an outdoor oven, old farming tools, a windmill, bath house, wash shed, fruit trees, ducks, turkeys, guineas, pigeons, chickens, longhorn cattle, horses, goats and sheep (they're fenced in so you can't go right up to them).
The suggested donation is $4 for adults, $1 for children.
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Two historic buildings for the price of one! Nice place to take the kids to learn about some local history. The Leonis Adobe is Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument number 1, and the Plummer House is California Historic Landmark number 160.
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This comes from the perspective of a teacher... It's a great place to go on a field trip. Interactive, the kids get to make tortillas, lasso a "steer," feed the livestock, use a water pump and make brands or dolls. The tour is very informative and allows the kids see what life was like in the mid-1800s. It's fun seeing the kids' reaction to the notion of bed pans and outhouses.
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I am convinced that this place is haunted. It's always given me the creeps! I remember the 2 field trips that I went on while in elementary school fondly. The docents were nice, they explained things well, and living-history type places are always good for kids. I love that Leonis Adobe is still around among the money and "trendyness" that is Calabasas.
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A very interesting historic place in Old Town Calabasas. This is a chance to see how people in the area lived long ago. I took the tour of the perfectly-preserved two-story former residence & it was fun. Kids will like the animals on the grounds: sheep, horses, big bulls (?) with horns (steers?). Do I sound like Jessica Simpson? She & Nick do live nearby in Calabasas......maybe it's contagious.
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