Pasadena Heritagae, Pasadena CA: Founded in 1977 during California's preservation awakening, this organization safeguards the architectural and craft traditions that established Pasadena as America's preeminent arts colony at the turn of the twentieth century. Beyond advocacy protecting individual landmarks, Heritage maintains the Craftsman Weekend tour program opening private homes, artist studios, and historic gardens where Greene & Greene and their contemporaries developed organic architecture principles that rippled across the nation. Educational programming connects preservation with living practice—workshops on historic tile-making, walking tours through craftspeople's cooperative neighborhoods, lectures on bungalow court urbanism. Their archives preserve design drawings and oral histories documenting how Pasadena's confluence of climate, patronage, and cross-cultural exchange produced innovations in furniture craft, ceramic arts, and landscape design. Through hands-on engagement with materials and sites, Heritage transforms preservation from nostalgic protection into active study of how craft traditions adapt and how historic design principles address contemporary needs for beauty, sustainability, and human-scaled community. Park for free in the back of the building through the back street and enter through the front door.
Join us every four Saturdays for rejuvenating mornings with @folk.lounge, set in some of Los Angeles’ most inspiring locations. Come to see creativity, community, and cultural storytelling come alive through needle and thread. Whether you're just beginning or have been stitching for years, you're invited to bring a project or start something new, and immerse yourself in a circle that nurtures both skill and soul.
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