Ziegler Estate
- Style
- Queen Anne
- City
- Los Angeles, CA
Built in 1904 on Figueroa Street in Highland Park, the Ziegler Estate blends Queen Anne and American Craftsman detailing near the Southwest Museum. In the 1950s, Southwest Museum director Carl Dentzel purchased the house as a planned addition to the museum's complex, which already included Casa de Adobe and the Braun Research Library. The building later served as a day-care facility before closing for renovation.
the building
Southwest Museum Complex. Carl Dentzel, director of the Southwest Museum, bought the Ziegler Estate in the 1950s intending to fold it into the museum's grounds alongside Casa de Adobe and the Braun Research Library, tying this residential building into Highland Park's museum campus.
the style
The house combines Queen Anne and American Craftsman elements, a pairing that reflects its 1904 construction date, a moment when Los Angeles builders were shifting from Victorian-era ornament toward the simpler Craftsman idiom that would soon dominate Highland Park.
More on Queen Annesignificance
Local preservationist Charles J. Fisher and the Highland Park Heritage Trust nominated the house for city protection; it was declared Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #416 on February 21, 1989, and added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 3, 2003.
nearby
- Southwest Museum of the American Indian
- Mount Pleasant House
- Masonic Temple (Highland Park)
- Richard Henry Dana Branch
- Smith Estate
- Lincoln Heights Branch Library