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LA Chinatown Heritage & Visitors Center

(open Wednesdays through Fridays 11am-3pm and Sundays 12pm-4:30pm)

411 Bernard St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012

mailing address
415 Bernard St.

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chssc@earthlink.net
323.222.0856

This website is produced by CHSSC Web Editor: Yvonne Chang

        

  
Chinatown Heritage & Visitors Center, 411 and 415 Bernard Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012. Before and after exterior painting in July 2006. 

  book shelf
Administrative Office and Bookstore
The Chinese Historical Society of Southern California was founded in 1975. It's aim is to discover and share Chinese-American history. In 1995, the Society moved into these two Victorian houses (see top picture), built in 1886 and 1888 by Philip Fritz, an emigrant from Alsace (German/French border region), for his family.

  Exhibition Room
Two photos of Exhibition Room 1.
Today, the Visitors Center shows the history of the Chinese in Southern California. On display are also artifacts from the archaeological dig performed during excavations for the Metro Red line at Union Station (the location of Los Angeles' original Chinatown). The CHSSC offers a free self-guided tour map and conducts private and public tours of Chinatown.


Archive Room
The research collection includes manuscripts, photographs, artifacts, as well as tapes and transcripts from a Chinatown oral history project. The bookstore stocks volumes on local and national Chinese-American history.