Workman & Temple Family Homestead Museum

Workman & Temple Family Homestead Museum We are open for guided tours of the historic houses Fri.-Sun., from 12-4 p.m. We are closed the 4th Fri.-Sun. of every month & on major holidays.

Tours of the Workman House are offered at 12 & 2 p.m., & tours of La Casa Nueva are offered at 1 & 3 p.m.

As a preview of the California Preservation Foundation's Doors Open California tours at the Homestead the weekend of the...
09/13/2026

As a preview of the California Preservation Foundation's Doors Open California tours at the Homestead the weekend of the 26th and 27th, commemorating the centennial of the building of La Casa Nueva, the newest post on The Homestead Blog looks at some of the history of its contractor, Sylvester J. Cook. We hope you will join us in a couple of weeks! https://homesteadmuseum.blog/2026/09/12/doors-open-california-preview-la-casa-nueva-contractor-sylvester-j-cook-1856-1950/

by Paul R. Spitzzeri On the weekend of the 26th and 27th, the Homestead, for the fourth consecutive year, is happy to participate in the California Preservation Foundation’s Doors Open Califo…

The latest post on The Homestead Blog, featuring a press photo from the Museum's collection, looks at the chameleon-like...
09/11/2026

The latest post on The Homestead Blog, featuring a press photo from the Museum's collection, looks at the chameleon-like life of Etta Bell Heil, a wealthy Chicago woman who, in the early 1920s, committed robberies as a disguised maid and then repeated this in Los Angeles. She then morphed into Donna E. Bell and opened the Sylvan Lodge Hospital in the Angel City into the Great Depression, but was jailed after a 1935 check bouncing conviction. Her last act was running a hospital in San Francisco before her death in 1944. Check out this remarkable story: https://homesteadmuseum.blog/2026/09/10/from-kleptomaniac-maid-to-maternity-hospital-matron-a-press-photo-of-etta-bell-heil-los-angeles-10-september-1925/

by Paul R. Spitzzeri We just recently published a 12-part post regarding the August 1924 killing of Theresa Weinstein Moers by her lover, ex-boxing champion Kid McCoy (Norman Selby), in which the q…

To mark the 176th anniversary of California's admission to the Union on 9 September 1850, the newest post on The Homeste...
09/09/2026

To mark the 176th anniversary of California's admission to the Union on 9 September 1850, the newest post on The Homestead Blog looks at how Admission Day was commemorated in Los Angeles newspapers during the 1870s, including proclamations making the day a state holiday: https://homesteadmuseum.blog/2026/09/09/the-destiny-of-california-will-be-upward-and-onward-california-admission-day-in-los-angeles-newspapers-1871-1880/

by Paul R. Spitzzeri On this day 176 years ago, California was admitted to the Union as the 31st state after considerable debate and division, which led to the Compromise of 1850. This package of f…

The concluding 12th part of a post on The Homestead Blog concerning the August 1924 killing of Theresa Weinstein Moers (...
09/09/2026

The concluding 12th part of a post on The Homestead Blog concerning the August 1924 killing of Theresa Weinstein Moers (Mors) by Normal Selby, widely known as former boxing champion Kid McCoy covers his sentence on the manslaughter conviction in that case, conviction on assault with the intent to murder on related charges, imprisonment at San Quentin State Prison, parole in 1932 and last years, including his 1940 su***de, but we shouldn't forget Moers who was overshadowed by McCoy's celebrity: https://homesteadmuseum.blog/2026/09/08/hell-hath-no-fury-like-a-human-leech-a-parasite-on-women-the-death-of-theresa-weinstein-moers-by-boxer-kid-mccoy-august-1924-part-twelve/

by Paul R. Spitzzeri After Norman Selby (a.k.a. Kid McCoy), a former boxing champion, was convicted just after Christmas 1924 for the shooting death of his lover, Theresa Weinstein Moers (Mors), in…

On this Labor Day, the latest post on The Homestead Blog features a circa 1900 photograph of some 40 workers at the Colt...
09/07/2026

On this Labor Day, the latest post on The Homestead Blog features a circa 1900 photograph of some 40 workers at the Colton plant of the California Portland Cement Company, the headquarters of which were in downtown Los Angeles. The first such firm west of the Rocky Mountains, what is now CalPortland processed Slover Mountain for cement, lime and other products to feed the incessant growth of greater Los Angeles and some of the history of its first decade is here: https://homesteadmuseum.blog/2026/09/07/wo-men-at-work-labor-day-edition-a-photograph-of-california-portland-cement-company-workers-colton-ca-1900/

by Paul R. Spitzzeri It is hard to overestimate the importance to our built environment of 19th century building material innovations like the Bessemer steel and Portland cement (so named in the 18…

Part 11 of a post on The Homestead Blog dealing with the August 1924 shooting death of Theresa Weinstein Moers (Mors) by...
09/07/2026

Part 11 of a post on The Homestead Blog dealing with the August 1924 shooting death of Theresa Weinstein Moers (Mors) by her lover, former boxing champion Norman Selby (famous as Kid McCoy) looks at closing arguments, jury deliberations and the verdict in his trial at the end of the year. Part 12 is Tuesday: https://homesteadmuseum.blog/2026/09/06/hell-hath-no-fury-like-a-human-leech-a-parasite-on-women-the-death-of-theresa-weinstein-moers-by-boxer-kid-mccoy-august-1924-part-eleven/

by Paul R. Spitzzeri After a trial of under two weeks in December 1924, four months after the shooting death of Theresa Weinstein Moers (Mors), for which ex-boxing champion Norman Selby, known in t…

The tenth part of a post on The Homestead Blog concerning the August 1924 killing of Theresa Weinstein Moers by her love...
09/05/2026

The tenth part of a post on The Homestead Blog concerning the August 1924 killing of Theresa Weinstein Moers by her lover, ex-pugilist Kid McCoy (Norman Selby) covers the December trial with the prosecution alleging first-degree murder punishable by the death penalty and the defense arguing both that it was a su***de by Moers and that their client was insane. Part 11 is tomorrow: https://homesteadmuseum.blog/2026/09/05/i-will-tell-a-story-that-will-convince-any-kind-of-jury-the-death-of-theresa-weinstein-moers-by-boxer-kid-mccoy-august-1924-part-ten/

by Paul R. Spitzzeri In December 1924, nearly four months after the shooting death of Theresa Weinstein Moers (Mors), her lover Norman Selby, known to the public as former boxing champion Kid McCoy…

We return to the 1924 killing of Theresa Weinstein Moers and the charge against her lover, Norman Selby (known as former...
09/05/2026

We return to the 1924 killing of Theresa Weinstein Moers and the charge against her lover, Norman Selby (known as former boxing legend Kid McCoy) in her death as the ninth part of a post on The Homestead Blog takes us from September through early December and the start of his murder trial. Part ten, covering the trial, is tomorrow: https://homesteadmuseum.blog/2026/09/04/the-fault-may-be-his-and-the-anger-be-hot-the-death-of-theresa-weinstein-moers-by-boxer-kid-mccoy-august-1924-part-nine/

by Paul R. Spitzzeri With the investigation by the Los Angeles Police Department and Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office into the August 1924 shooting death of Theresa Weinstein Moe…

The concluding fourth part of a post on The Homestead Blog looking at transportation routes through the San Gabriel Vall...
09/04/2026

The concluding fourth part of a post on The Homestead Blog looking at transportation routes through the San Gabriel Valley, particularly in eastern section, from 1851 to 1926 focuses on automobile highways and byways, which grew in tandem with the boom in cars during the first three decades of the 20th century: https://homesteadmuseum.blog/2026/09/03/trails-tracks-and-thoroughfares-routes-of-travel-through-the-san-gabriel-valley-1851-1926-part-four/

by Paul R. Spitzzeri The automobile age came to Los Angeles in 1897 when J. Philip Erie introduced a “horseless carriage” on the streets of the Angel City and, though the vehicle was no…

Part three of a post, following last weekend's Route 66 Centennial presentation at the Glendora Public Library, looking ...
09/03/2026

Part three of a post, following last weekend's Route 66 Centennial presentation at the Glendora Public Library, looking at routes of travel through the San Gabriel Valley from 1851-1926, takes in railroad and streetcar development in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as the valley and greater Los Angeles, as a whole, experienced tremendous growth. Tomorrow's concluding part four looks at major automobile routes through the Valley during the early 1900s: https://homesteadmuseum.blog/2026/09/02/trails-tracks-and-thoroughfares-routes-of-travel-through-the-san-gabriel-valley-1851-1926-part-three/

by Paul R. Spitzzeri For about a quarter-century after the establishment of Los Angeles County in spring 1850, the development of transportation routes through the eastern San Gabriel Valley to poi…

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