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The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is located on land that serves as a night market agriculture from 1872 to 1910. In the 1890s, a local attorney and a Sunday school teacher, William Miller Bowen, became increasingly concerned with the growing number of saloons, gambling events , and other crimes in the park. In 1909, he led the fight to convince the country, County, and the City to develop the park as a cultural center. In this plan, the State will construct a building for the exhibition of the products of California (and later the armory); County that will build a museum of history and art; and the City will maintain the grounds. This tripartite ownership still exists today. The museum building is located on the west axis of the rose garden sink proposed Park Farm, renamed Exposition Park in December 1910. On December 17 of that year, with Bowen, Mayor George Alexander , future California Governor William H. Stephens and other officials were present, and the Grand Lodge of Masons of California referee, the cornerstone was laid and construction begins Museum.
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The original structure - what is now known colloquially as Building 1913 - designed by local architect Frank Hudson and William AD Munsell. It was an eclectic mix of styles: Spanish Renaissance ornamentation seen in terracotta decoration; The Romanesque style arched windows and brick walls; and the Beaux-Arts tradition in focus T.Titik shaped floor plan of the building 1913, and today, the rotunda, which measures 75 meters in diameter with three wings. Rotunda walls are made of Italian marble, mosaic tile floor. Julia Bracken Wendt "Three Muses" statue graces the center. Rotunda dome is 58 feet high, with a ceiling 20 feet across, was designed by leading Walter Horace Judson. As the museum is being built, four local organizations - Historical Society of Southern California, Cooper Ornithological Club, Southern California Academy of Sciences, and Fine Arts League - persuaded to fill the new museum galleries. The museum was given exclusive rights in 1913 to remove remnants of prehistoric tar pit at Rancho La Brea. Continues to dominate the mammalian skeleton wings science museum until 1976, when they moved to the Cenozoic Hall and to the George C. Page Museum of La Brea Discoveries.
Grand Opening
On November 6, 1913, Exposition Park and the new museum - which is called the Los Angeles County Museum of History, Science, and the Arts at the time - was officially opened to the public. A two-week civil celebration ensued, dovetailing with the opening of the Owens River Aqueduct. In the San Fernando Valley, William Mulholland will declare water in his famous speech short, "There it is, take it." In Exposition Park, US Senator John D. Work fountain dedicated location that will occupy the center of the sunken garden as a warning that the water channel. As Senator Jobs left the platform, a water jet soaring 30 meters.
History, science and art collections of the Museum gradually outgrew the capacity of Building 1913, and expanded the original structure. In 1963, the Department of Art moved into its own museum in Hancock Park (Los Angeles County Museum of Art). At that time, the facility Exposition Park into the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHM). NHM joins with other major cultural facilities in the garden: Memorial Coliseum, Arena Sports, Swimming Stadium, California Science Center, California African American Museum, and the largest rose garden in the city belong to this country.
Renovation and Preservation
After more than two years of renovation and preservation of architecture, Building 1913 was opened in the spring of 2009. In addition to the seismic retrofit, the initial stage of construction is also focused on the recovery of brightly colored stained glass skylight at the top of the Rotunda. This demanding work is done by David Judson, the grandson of the sky designer, Walter Horace Judson. Under the direction of David, stained glass ornaments and elegant cleaned, repaired and reinforced, brought it back to its full glory. By using data on the size of the NHM's own archives - including historical images, photos and documents - project team found the original design, layout and construction methods of the original building and the addition of 1920 subsequent to restore the building, while modernizing the inside and outside.