Crafting Memories: Family Day
The Gamble House and Pasadena Museum of History welcome all ages for a free day of architecture, art, and exploration. Enjoy self-guided tours, exhibitions, crafts, and more! Picnics at both sites are welcome.
Fire & Light Tour
The Gamble House is a glass-lovers paradise containing exquisite glass windows, light fixtures, wall sconces, cabinets, and doors. Fire & Light, a 2-hour in-depth tour, explores the leaded art glass in The Gamble House.
Behind the Velvet Ropes
Experience the House at a leisurely pace... Behind the Velvet Ropes speciality tours are conducted by docents with years of experience and a great deal of passion. These longer tours allow them to share with you their own excitement and knowledge and show you details that are normally only seen from a distance.
The Gamble House Book Club: Dust Jacket Journeys
Join us for our book club, Dust Jacket Journeys, where we invite you to explore perspectives around architecture, art, identity, and place. This month join us for a discussion on Metropolitan Stories by Christine Coulson.
Details & Joinery Tour
A craftsman's tour of The Gamble House. Over 100 years ago a team of gifted craftsmen labored for 11 months to create The Gamble House. Inspired by the designs of Pasadena architects Charles and Henry Greene, the craftsman contractors led by John and Peter Hall, Scandinavian woodworkers, cut, turned, joined, carved, and hand-rubbed 17 species of wood into the House and furnishings that today are recognized as one of the greatest achievements in American architecture and craftsmanship.
Behind the Velvet Ropes
Experience the House at a leisurely pace... Behind the Velvet Ropes speciality tours are conducted by docents with years of experience and a great deal of passion. These longer tours allow them to share with you their own excitement and knowledge and show you details that are normally only seen from a distance.
Greene & Greene Neighborhood Walking Tour
Enjoy a guided walk around the historic Arroyo Terrace neighborhood, a National Register historic district that is home to 9 Greene & Greene houses as well as the works of other noted architects such as Myron Hunt, Edwin Bergstrom, Elmer Grey, and D. M. Renton.
Greene and Greene Architecture Bike Tour
Don't miss this rare opportunity to tour Pasadena by bike with expert commentary from the Gamble House curator!
Behind the Velvet Ropes
Behind the Velvet Ropes speciality tours are conducted by docents with years of experience and a great deal of passion. These longer tours allow them to share with you their own excitement and knowledge and show you details that are normally only seen from a distance.
Greene & Greene Neighborhood Walking Tour
Enjoy a guided walk around the historic Arroyo Terrace neighborhood, a National Register historic district that is home to 9 Greene & Greene houses as well as the works of other noted architects such as Myron Hunt, Edwin Bergstrom, Elmer Grey, and D. M. Renton.
Greene & Greene Neighborhood Walking Tour
On this tour, your docent will lead an exploration of the house and its history through rooms lined with rare woods, featuring handcrafted details, fixtures, and furnishings designed by the architects and unique to the house.
Historic Old Pasadena Walking Tour
Explore Old Pasadena at twilight on a guided walk through historic alleyways, hidden courtyards, and preserved landmarks. See the ruins of the city’s second library, a reimagined historic theater, and hear stories of the district’s remarkable transformation and preservation.
The Museum of Me: Learning to Talk About Ourselves for Posterity
Joshua Goode is a Professor History who has also managed a museum studies program and has worked internationally with museums to contemplate how they tell their stories and to whom. He will lead an exercise in all of us becoming the Curator and Director of the Museum of Me putting on a show about us.
The Mad Hatter's Tea Party
A whimsical, family-friendly tea party filled with magic, storytelling, costumed characters, and sweet treats at the historic Blinn House.
Old Pasadena Walking Tour South
The Old Pasadena Walking Tour South
The Old Pasadena Walking Tour South explores the rich and diverse history of Dayton Street and some of Pasadena's earliest Black-owned businesses, the first Fire Station, and the Friendship Pasadena Church (previously the Friendship Baptist Church). This narrated and guided tour will also include the story of Mills Place Alley, the site of an 1885 fire at a Chinese laundry, which resulted in the expulsion of Pasadena's Chinese population from the city's original commercial district.
Without Pasadena Heritage, this National Register Historic District would have been destroyed! Now, it is one of the finest examples of downtown revitalization in the country. Let one of our trained docents lead you through the historic neighborhood and reveal its many hidden and unusual architectural details, old alleyways, and historic signs.
The tour is approximately 1.5 hours and covers approximately 1.5 miles.
Old Pasadena tours are graciously sponsored by the Old Pasadena Management District.
Preservation Pasadena Part II: Shaping Suburbia: The Modern Era & Early Suburban Design
Preservation Pasadena Part II: Shaping Suburbia: The Modern Era & Early Suburban Design
Three weekends a year we celebrate the extraordinary architecture found throughout our wonderful city with special lectures, receptions, tours and more. Join us for the second installment of 2024’s Preservation Pasadena as we explore the buildings, architecture, and neighborhoods that shaped suburban Pasadena from the 1920s to the 1960s!