Our Historic Structures
Wisteria Cottage
Located on the corner of Prospect Street and Eads Avenue in the heart of the Scripps/Gill Cultural District, Wisteria Cottage is by far the most prominent of the La Jolla Historical Society's facilities.
Carriage House
Until about 1912, there were no cars in La Jolla, horse-drawn carriages and wagons being the transportation of the early days. At the time, Ellen Browning Scripps owned an extensive tract of property along the La Jolla coastline that included her first Victorian-style home (Moulton Villa), a lathe house and this carriage house is still on its original Eads Avenue site that housed her horse-drawn carriages.
Current Headquarters
The La Jolla Historical Society, which had been located in a small office at the Colonial Inn hotel on Prospect Street, acquired the cottage as the Society's new home after discovering the cottage would be demolished to make room for a three-story condominium.
