Every Museum of Greater Los Angeles

Santa Fe Springs, Los Angeles Historical Museum

Hathaway Ranch & Oil Museum

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11901 Florence Ave, Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670

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Santa Fe Springs, Los Angeles

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Featured in the book, Also On View: Unique and Unexpected Museums of Greater Los Angeles!
  • The modern world (and its commercial loading docks) sits just beyond the fenceline.
  • The unique Spanish-Mediterranean style concrete home, built in 1933 by Jesse Hathaway.
  • A diorama of an oil refinery, which itself sits inside a former oil tank converted into museum storage/display.
  • A steam-powered, working scale model of an oil derrick.
  • Francine Hathaway Rippy, steward of the family legacy.

Photos by Ryan Schude