Pioneer Living Village Museum

Pioneer Living History Museum

I visited the Pioneer Living Village Museum awhile back, and the day I was there was a slow one in terms of visitors, so I enjoyed a nice, leisurely walk around the place.  It was interesting as, although some of the buildings are historically accurate reproductions, some of the them are original.  The village is from the 1800s and is located in North Phoenix.  At the time I was there, volunteers could "adopt" any given building and, in addition to maintaining the building itself, would educate visitors on activities such as the construction of wagon wheels and mining.  I thought I had taken more photos of the buildings, particularly the original ones, but I can't seem to find them.  There is more information on the buildings on the museum's website.

Mercantile (reconstructed)  This serves as a gift shop for the museum. 

  

This is the original 1878 boyhood home of Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst. Henry Ashurst was Arizona's first senator. He gained national fame as the "Silver-tongued Orator of Congress." (Source - The Pioneer Living Village Museum website.)

This photo makes me laugh every time.

Not looking too happy about having his photo taken.

       

Happy as a pig in mud!

Inside the Community Church (reconstructed)

 

Mining carts on the rails by the Miner's Cabin.

Miner's Cabin (reconstructed)

Entrance to the Miner's Cabin.

This area represents an 1890's Phoenix dressmaking shop. By this time, ready-made clothing was widely available. The patrons of this stop would most likely have been upper class women who could afford custom made clothing.  (Source - The Pioneer Living Village Museum website.)

This is one of the original buildings out at the Pioneer Living Village Museum.  This house was built in the early 1890's on an 80-acre homestead in Phoenix which was acquired by John Marion Sears. (Source - The Pioneer Living Village Museum website.)

I believe this is either the Meritt House or the Northern Home.  Both homes at the museum are the original buildings and more information on both can be found on the Pioneer Living Village Museum website.

This is inside the Carpenter's Shop (reconstructed). 

This shop is modeled after an 1880 Prescott shop. Carpenters were in demand for the construction of counters, display cases, and furniture repair as well as new buildings. Often a carpenter was also a cabinet maker, in which case he made furniture – bedsteads, wash stands, tables, chairs, etc. The tools exhibited in the Carpenter Shop are not from the original shop but have been donated by people from all over the country. Carpenter shops were usually surrounded by large lumber yards.  (Source - Pioneer Living Village website.)

This is an old wood-burning stove in the Carpenter's Shop.

On the left is Tumbleweed Tillie's Photography, in the middle is an undertaker and embalmer's office, and I'm not sure what the building on the right is.  

The Gallows