Historical Home Tour Scheduled Sunday

For those whose idea of a pleasant Sunday afternoon includes reposing on the lawn of a 19th century colonial home while being served refreshments by people dressed in Victorian-era costumes, Sunland-Tujunga will be the place to be this weekend.

The local coordinating council and the Little Landers Historical Society will sponsor the second annual Sunland-Tujunga Historic Home and Garden Tour on Sunday.

The tour, which costs $10, will benefit the Bolton Hall Museum as well as a scholarship fund for graduates of Verdugo Hills High School.

Stops on the tour include a Spanish Colonial Revival-style house built in the 1920s for R. Lee Heath, who served as police chief of Los Angeles and Tujunga, a two-story farmhouse built on what was once known as Oak Glen Ranch, a craftsman house designed and built by local artisan George Harris in the 1920s, and a restored 1890s colonial home set on more than an acre of landscaped gardens, said Joanne Wright of the coordinating council. The tour will also include a stop at an English cottage garden.

“The owners of these homes have taken great pains to keep the original character,” Wright said. “They have really shown respect for the past and the heritage of this area and that is something that’s become rare these days.”

Bolton Hall, which dates back to the 1910s, was also built by Harris. For years it served as an all-purpose civic building for a utopian community known as Little Lands in what is now known as Tujunga, Wright said.

“As the community grew, there were plans to tear it down,” Wright said. “A group of people came together to save it and that’s how the historical society was born and why it is called the Little Landers Historical Society.”

The society now operates its museum out of the building.

The tour will run from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tickets may be purchased the day of the event at Bolton Hall, 10110 Commerce Ave., Tujunga.

For more information, call Wright at (818) 895-5132, Ext. 27.