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SUMMARY:Western Hotel Museum - Open Hours
DESCRIPTION:The Western Hotel Museum is open from 11AM - 4PM\non the second
  and fourth Friday and Saturday each month.\n\nThe Western Hotel Museum pl
 ays host to permanent displays of  historical artifacts from the  Museum
  of Art and History's permanent collection. Most of these objects\,  rang
 ing from Native American stone tools to old mining equipment\, to photogra
 phs of well-known Lancaster  residents have been donated by members of th
 e public\, constituting a preserved  record of the history of the area. W
 hile specific rooms in the Western Hotel Museum are closed for renovation\
 , exhibitions on view will include: Antelope Valley Mining\, the Californi
 a Missions\, Fashions from the Past and Antelope Valley Native Americans. 
 Currently on view are many early Antelope Valley photographs and historica
 l items\, as well as mock hotel rooms and an outdoor garden. \n\nBuilt ar
 ound 1888\, the Western Hotel Museum is downtown Lancaster's oldest surviv
 ing structure. As a hotel\, it has gone through several names\, including 
 the Antelope Valley Hotel\, the Gillwyn Hotel\, and lastly\, the Western H
 otel (c. 1895). Its most famous owners were George and Myrtie Webber. Myrt
 ie died in 1978 at the age of 110.\n\nThe Western Hotel Museum is one of t
 he most visible links Lancaster has to its heritage. At the turn of the ce
 ntury\, the two-story hotel was a vital part of local culture\, accommodat
 ing everyone from muleskinners to British lords. After years of different 
 owners and purposes\, the hotel fell into a state of disrepair during the 
 1970s and was condemned. Lancaster residents\, rallied to save the once-gr
 and hotel. This resulted in the formation of the Western Hotel Historical 
 Society. Restoration was completed in 1988\, and the hotel/museum now hous
 es photographs and artifacts that depict the history of the people who bui
 lt\, worked and lived in the Western Hotel. You can almost feel the mood o
 f the 1890s as you walk through the long\, narrow hallways and wood-panele
 d rooms.\n\nIn addition\, the Western Hotel Museum is listed with the Cali
 fornia Office of Historic Preservation (OHP) as California Historic Landma
 rk (CHL)\, #658. The Western Hotel owes much of its listing to\, as noted 
 by the OHP\, "Between 1905 and 1913\, construction crews of the Los Angele
 s-Owens River Aqueduct were housed here\, and it became a center of commer
 cial and social activity in the early life of the community." 
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