West Adams Tour
Check-In House
On Saturday, Rhoda and I attended the West Adams Annual Holiday Home Tour and Dinner. It was the 20th year that WAHA (West Adams Heritage Association) has conducted this tour and holiday dinner. It was fabulous. This year's tour was in Victoria Park (near Pico and Windsor). Most of the homes were built between 1909 and 1915. There was one 'new' house built in 1922. We had an excellent guide who explained about the history of the neighborhood, the architecture, past residents, etc. We walked to all of the houses, 15 minutes between houses and 30 minutes at each house. We were allowed to explore each house (usually upstairs and down). A different menu course was served at each house. There was the meet-up house, the soup house, the salad house, the main course house and the dessert house. Along the way we met some interesting people, had a lovely meal and got to explore a wonderful, historical neighborhood.
Appetizer House
Soup House
Salad House
Main Course House
Dessert House
I went back to the neighborhood on Sunday to take better exterior photos of the houses. It was dark as we walked thru the neighborhood on Saturday. All of the homes had been meticulously restored. The woodwork, built-ins, tile, fireplaces, etc. were elegant and custom. Below are some of the highlights from the various homes.
Built-in Dining Room Cabinets
Vintage Kitchen
Happy Guests
Judson Studios Glass Mural on Landing
Live Entertainment!
Champagne Cake
Happy Anniversary WAHA
Labels: Los Angeles
posted by Ellen Bloom @ 3:02 PM
5 Comments:
Beautiful! Those houses are really something. I love how the dessert house makes me want to eat dessert. (Or, maybe that's not such a good thing.)
Gorgeous houses!!!! My piddly little shack was built in the teens, so it's a contemporary of these homes. But alas, my place started its life as the barest of accomodations for the hired help. I always have wished I could live of these grande dame homes.
Those houses and gardens are stunning. Wish we could see more indoors, but sounds like it was a wonderful evening. Thanks for sharing.
Wow, thanks for sharing! You always do the most fun things. I love tours like that, down here in Venice we have the secrect gardens of Venice tours I always love to go to.
It comes around May let me know if you want to go.
*I* wanna know about Venice!! I want to have known about this BEFORE it occurred. I'm always missing the great stuff. :(
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