FRESNO:
Holiday Sweets & Winter Treats at Kearney Mansion Museum November
29, 2024-January 5, 2025, Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays
Annual Christmas at Kearney Mansion
display features decorated trees, each representing a local decorator's interpretation of a favorite Seasonal dessert.
Learn the history of treasured family recipes and how they came to be holiday favorites around the world. From sugar plumbs to buche de noel and candy canes to gingerbread men. Additionally, guests will tour the Kearney Mansion and learn the story of M. Theo Kearney and the Fruit Vale Estate. $12, valleyhistory.org
FREMONT Twilight Time Holiday Open House at the Patterson House December
6-22, 2024, 4:30-8 p.m.
Ardenwood Historic Farm, Fremont
34600 Ardenwood Blvd.
Fremont, CA 94555
$reservations, fremont.gov
- Live music
- Refreshments
- Decorated Christmas Trees
- Victorian-style holiday ornaments
Enjoy Christmas Splendor and celebrate a turn of the 20th century holiday at a beautifully restored Queen Anne mansion. Join costumed docents for a tour of 14 rooms decorated with Victorian-style holiday ornaments. Enjoy live music and refreshments.
Age 12 years and under free. Register online. If not sold out, tickets may also be purchased at the entry as space allows.
HAYWARD: H.A.R.D. Holiday Lights free event to light up three of the city's Historical Mansions, celebrate the season with some fun activities at Mt. Eden Mansion, Meek Mansion and McConaghy Mansion, and enjoy some hot chocolate. haywardrec.org
CAMPBELL: Ainsley House "Christmas Cravings" November 14-December
22, 2024, Thursday-Sunday, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
$12,
campbellmuseums.com
Holiday Tours at the Ainsley House In 1925, the Ainsley family was preparing to move into their new home just in time for the holidays. Ninety years later you can enjoy the enchanting atmosphere of the Ainsley
House. All fifteen rooms are decorated by local designers, decorators, florists
and volunteers who will transform the Tudor style house into a holiday
wonderland based around the theme of Christmas Around the World. The Museum
Foundation opens holiday boutique and offers special delights for the
holiday shopper.
Special events: Photos with Santa.
November 23, 2024, 9 a.m.-12 p.m.
Holiday Teas and Tours December 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, 2024, 12-2 p.m. $60
View and tour the home decorated with enchanting holiday decor, enjoy holiday music and appetizers/ refreshments at the Carriage House.
Evening Open Houses December 19 & 22, 2024, 5:30- 8 p.m.
CHICO:
Stansbury Home
Victorian Christmas
December 6-8, 2024
307 W 5th St.
Chico, CA 95928
$6, stansburyhome.org
Friday, December 6, 2024, 6-9 p.m.
Saturday, December 2, 2024, 12-6 p.m.
Sunday, December 3, 2024, 1-4 p.m.
Celebrating over 140 years, step back into an 1800's Victorian Christmas.
On the corner of 5th and Salem in downtown Chico, the Stansbury Home
features holiday entertainment, hot apple cider, Bidwell Perk tea, homemade cookies and
visits from Santa. Presented by The Stansbury Home Preservation Association
LAKE FOREST: Heritage Hill Candlelight Walk
Holiday Lights
Heritage Hill Historical Park
25151 Serrano Road
Lake Forest, CA 92630
Free,
ocparks.com
The park and historical buildings are aglow with
Christmas lights and holiday decoration. Docents share each building's history, and Victorian
carolers and musical performers filling the night air
with seasonal songs. Listen to OC Libraries share
winter tales via storytelling, and have a chance to
meet Santa!
Light refreshments are available for purchase.
The fun continues with Holiday Lights.
LOS ANGELES: Grier House Victorian Christmas House Tour December 8, 2024, 1-4 p.m.
Tours at 1 & 2:30 p.m.
A tour of a historic Victorian house of 1898, includes refreshments. $15 RSVP:
(213) 413-1814
403 South Bonnie Brae Street
Los Angeles, CA 90057
griermussermuseum.org
WOODSIDE: Filoli Holiday Traditions
$, filoli.org - get tickets online
- prices may go up from these prices
Over the past century, the holidays have been special times at Filoli. Celebrate! 100 Years of Holidays
FRESNO Meux Home Museum Christmas at The Meux
Christmas Tea Event December 7, 2024
$50,
meuxhomemuseum.org
Meux Home Museum
1007 R. Street
Fresno, CA 93710
Decorated for the holidays, guests can take tours of this wonderful residence.
WILMINGTON: Banning Museum Victorian Christmas December
7, 2024 12-4 p.m.
401 East M Street
Wilmington, CA 90744
Free admission, banningmuseum.org
Banning Museum Annual Victorian Christmas Celebration and Open House! Due to the generosity of
sponsors, event admission is FREE! Visitors will enjoy period entertainment,
tours of the Museum decorated in holiday splendor, refreshments, a children's
craft, a blacksmith, a horse-drawn trolley ride between The Banning Museum and
Drum Barracks Civil War Museum as well as local food and craft vendors.
HUNTINGTON BEACH:
Newland House Museum
Holidays in HB Open House
hbhistory.org
LOS ANGELES: Heritage Square Museum Yuletide Cinemaland:
November 30-December 23, 2024
Heritage Square Museum
3800 Homer Street
Los Angeles, CA 90031
$, heritagesquare.org
Outdoor cinema double features, home tours, Victorian-era Holiday Home Tours, Tinsel Tavern, Holiday Market, Photo Ops, Al Fresco Dining & Food Trucks, Santa Meet & Greet, Piano Sing-alongs
Line up:
PORTERVILLE: Zalud House Old Fashioned Christmas Candlelight Tours December 6, 7, 13, 14, 2024, 6-8 p.m.
Zalud House
393 N. Hockett St.
Porterville, CA 93257
$3 no reservation needed, ci.porterville.ca.us/departments
Seasonal Displays & Vintage Decorations Guided Tours and Refreshments. Built in 1891, the Zalud House is one of few museums in the nation that is furnished entirely with the original owners' possessions.
SAN JOSE: Winchester Mystery House Holiday Mansion Tours November 23, 2024-January 1, 2025,
Winchester Mystery House
525 S. Winchester Blvd.
San Jose, CA
$45 approx., winchestermysteryhouse.com
Traditional Victorian Christmas décor, a sprinkling of Victorian holiday traditions, and festive music for the holiday season.
Events are not guaranteed. It is your responsibility to confirm before going.