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Get your walking shoes on: Museum on Main, LARPD to host historic Pleasanton tour

Route includes view of homes along St. Mary Street

The Museum on Main and the Livermore Area Recreation and Park District are teaming up to offer a special walking tour for seniors around downtown Pleasanton.

One of the stops on the St. Mary Street tour is the former home of one of the Lewis brothers who ran the hardware store that eventually became Kolln Hardware at the corner of Main and Division streets. (Photo courtesy Museum on Main)

Rachel Brickell, the museum's director of education, will guide the sidewalk tour set for May 31, where participants will view the historic homes along St. Mary Street, Pleasanton Avenue and Rose Avenue, concluding at Peters Avenue.

The museum and LARPD have partnered with each other for several years offering various opportunities for local seniors, which includes these walking tours. The upcoming walk will be the second St. Mary Street tour they've hosted together, according to Sarah Schaefer, the Museum on Main's executive director.

The tour includes lessons about the history of the families that occupied the homes along the walking route as well as their contributions and their everyday lives as they helped build Pleasanton.

"We do Second Street tours as well but what sets St. Mary apart is that we talk a little bit about some of the fraternal social organizations that existed in Pleasanton and their roles in the community. And because the fairgrounds and the race track are over on that side of the town, we talk about that as well," Schaefer said.

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She said the tour also explores historic preservation and what makes a historic resource. "We really dive into that a lot on the St. Mary tour -- which is something else that sets this tour apart," Schaefer said.

While Schaefer noted that the tour doesn't go in depth about the architectural details of the various homes, they will provide some information to participants so that they can further explore the architectural features on their own.

Following the approximately two-hour tour, participants will be able to break out on their own for lunch at one of the many restaurants along Main Street and throughout downtown.

Participants will meet at Museum on Main located at 603 Main St. in Pleasanton for the walk which begins at 10 a.m. on May 31. Transportation is not included. To register, visit LARPD.org or call 925-373-5700.

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Get your walking shoes on: Museum on Main, LARPD to host historic Pleasanton tour

Route includes view of homes along St. Mary Street

by / Pleasanton Weekly

Uploaded: Sun, May 21, 2023, 5:07 pm

The Museum on Main and the Livermore Area Recreation and Park District are teaming up to offer a special walking tour for seniors around downtown Pleasanton.

Rachel Brickell, the museum's director of education, will guide the sidewalk tour set for May 31, where participants will view the historic homes along St. Mary Street, Pleasanton Avenue and Rose Avenue, concluding at Peters Avenue.

The museum and LARPD have partnered with each other for several years offering various opportunities for local seniors, which includes these walking tours. The upcoming walk will be the second St. Mary Street tour they've hosted together, according to Sarah Schaefer, the Museum on Main's executive director.

The tour includes lessons about the history of the families that occupied the homes along the walking route as well as their contributions and their everyday lives as they helped build Pleasanton.

"We do Second Street tours as well but what sets St. Mary apart is that we talk a little bit about some of the fraternal social organizations that existed in Pleasanton and their roles in the community. And because the fairgrounds and the race track are over on that side of the town, we talk about that as well," Schaefer said.

She said the tour also explores historic preservation and what makes a historic resource. "We really dive into that a lot on the St. Mary tour -- which is something else that sets this tour apart," Schaefer said.

While Schaefer noted that the tour doesn't go in depth about the architectural details of the various homes, they will provide some information to participants so that they can further explore the architectural features on their own.

Following the approximately two-hour tour, participants will be able to break out on their own for lunch at one of the many restaurants along Main Street and throughout downtown.

Participants will meet at Museum on Main located at 603 Main St. in Pleasanton for the walk which begins at 10 a.m. on May 31. Transportation is not included. To register, visit LARPD.org or call 925-373-5700.

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