Paint Out at Stagecoach Inn Museum Newbury Park

Name: Paint Out at Stagecoach Inn Museum Newbury Park
Start: 2025-03-08T13:00:00-08:00
End: 2025-03-08T16:00:00-08:00
Location: Stagecoach Inn

Schedule

Sat Mar 08 2025 at 01:00 pm to 04:00 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

Stagecoach Inn | Thousand Oaks, CA

VC Landmark No. 30 (Also listed as a California State Historical Landmark and in the National Register. City Landmark #1)
The Stagecoach Inn Museum:
The inn is a Monterey-style structure of northern California redwood with a wraparound porch and balcony. The original structure was built in 1876 and functioned as a school, post office, steak house, church, gift shop, and movie set. The four-acre property contains a 200-year-old sycamore tree (Landmark No. 44) and recreations of a carriage house, 3-room pioneer house, blacksmith shop, working windmill, Timber School, Spanish adobe, outdoor beehive oven, and Chumash Native American bulrush hut. The inn was moved to its current site in 1965 due to the construction of Highway 101.
VC Landmark No. 44 (City Landmark #2)
Sycamore Tree:
This unusually large and old specimen of tree native to California was over 150 years old when designated as a landmark. The Chumash Native Americans are said to have bent the lower branches to mark the location of underground water.
(This tree is located in the Stagecoach Inn Museum complex. Park at the Stagecoach Inn parking lot and walk your way down the pathway to visit the tree, an Indian house and other old structures. Located at the N.E. corner of the Stagecoach Inn Museum by the Chumash Village)
The tiny Timber School on the Stagecoach Museum grounds is a replica of the one-room schoolhouse that served the Conejo Valley from 1888, is complete with blackboards, desks, an organ and a woodstove.
VC Landmark No. 44 (City Landmark #12)
Timber School and Auditorium:
(1872 Newbury Rd. After leaving the Museum grounds, turn left on Ventu Park Road. At the first signal, turn left on Newbury Road. The school is on the left corner at the intersection of Newbury Road and Kelley Road.)
This is the second school building to occupy this site; the original two-room Timber School was built circa 1924 by Adolph Schroeder and designed by architect Roy C. Wilson. There is a later classroom which was added in 1955, and to its west is the auditorium structure added in 1948. The school is a simple, one-story structure built in the Mission Revival style topped by a low gable roof that is capped by a small octagonal cupola that also served as a working bell tower. The Timber School Auditorium was added to the west side of the schoolhouse in 1948. The auditorium was also designed by Roy C. Wilson, providing a link both aesthetically and historically to the earlier 1924 building.
Restroom on-site.
To see a map of the grounds and plan your painting visit see: https://stagecoachinnmuseum.com/contact