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Museum Tours
Tues - Thurs : 12:30, 1:30, 2:30
Sat - Sun : 12:30, 1:30, 2:30, 3:30
The Banning Museum is under construction, however tours will be held at regular tour times during the month of August.
For further information please call the museum at (310) 548-7777.
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DID YOU KNOW?
When in San Francisco, CA, Phineas Banning always stayed in the Occidental Hotel. In fact, he died on March 8, 1885 in that hotel after sustaining injuries months before his death.
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The cornstalk fence is cast iron and was made by Wood & Perot, Philadelphia in 1858. It has a beautiful design of cornstalks resting on pumpkins, with morninglories weaving around them. It was purchased by William Sanford Banning in New Orleans in the early 1900s and was installed around the Banning Residence Museum in 1984.
The fence is very unique with only two others like it in existence. They are both in New Orleans, one around the Cornstalk Hotel, and the other surrounding a private home in the Garden District.
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