Rosson House Museum

This 2,800 square foot beautiful Eastlake architectural style Victorian home built in 1895 features ten rooms and five fireplaces. View what life was like for Rosson House residents of Block 14, owners and tenants both, in early Phoenix during Arizona’s late territorial times all in its original location. Docent guided tours are held on the half hour and last approx. 30 minutes. Open: Wednesday-Saturday (10am-4pm) and Sunday (Noon-4pm). Admission: $5 adults, $4 seniors & students, $2 children 6-12 years old, Free 5 years old & under. Last tour on each day starts at 3:30pm. Closed Easter Sunday. Ticket Office 602.262.5070. To schedule a group or school tour please call 602.261.8948 or Click Here! to email. For recorded park information please call 602.262.5029. Click Here! for park and museum maps. • Your Rosson House tour admission helps support the free Hands-On Heritage House (see below).

Need a gift for that special someone or just a fun souvenir? Visit the Rosson House Museum’s gift shop. The Heritage Square Emporium provides unique gift buying opportunities for park guests along with soft drinks and packaged snacks. Conveniently located in the Rosson House Ticket Office. Also, click here for our online Keepsakes Page.

• Remember your Rosson House tickets & Heritage Square Emporium purchases help support the ongoing activities, events, docent programs and more of the Rosson House - Heritage Square Foundation (a 501c3 non-profit organization) of the Rosson House Museum. 

• Upcoming Special Programs & Exhibit Themes •

N e w !  The fun and engaging Hands-On Heritage House, a free companion education center of the 1895 Rosson House is now open. Come join fun historical hands-on activities and exhibits inside the 1901 California bungalow style Stevens-Haustgen House. Look through a stereoscope, try your hand at old fashioned games, investigate the tools of kitchen and laundry duties over 100 years ago and more. This participatory exhibit space is also the headquarters of our scheduled school tours and Heritage Saturday activities. The Hands-On Heritage House (602.534.9382) is open Wednesday - Saturday 10am - 4pm and Sunday Noon - 4pm. Closed Easter Sunday. For information on school tours and programs please call 602.261.8948.

Special Exhibit Themes • At certain times during the season the Rosson House plays host to various themes to bring history more alive for our visitors. Click Here! to read a description of December’s happy Victorian Christmas theme and the eloquent 1890s “at-home” wedding exhibit. These special exhibit themes are included with regular tour admission.

"Step Back in Time"

A fun and informative tour program featuring “Mrs. Rosson & friends” inside the Rosson home just as it would have been back in 1895! Presented by Heritage Square’s "Step Back in Time" Players. Included with regular Rosson House tour admission. “Step Back in Time” Players are also available for outreach programs, promotional events at your business or institution and more. For more information on tour program dates and other opportunities please call 602.261.8063 or Click Here! to email.

For further information on Historic Block Walks, “Step Back In Time” schedules, donation or volunteering opportunities call 602.261.8063.

Heritage & Science Park

Heritage & Science Park, a Phoenix Points of Pride, is a City of Phoenix Park which consists of Historic Heritage Square (home of the 1895 Rosson House and various historic buildings that house museums and restaurants), The Phoenix Museum of History and The Arizona Science Center. The park is located on 7th Street & Washington in downtown Phoenix. For more facts on events, rental information and park hours please e-mail or call 602.262.5029. Parking is conveniently located at the 5th Street & Monroe Parking Garage. Please bring your parking ticket with you to have it validated for a reduced parking fee.

Heritage & Science Park Passports Are Here! Savings & convenience all in one ticket price! Tour Passports include admission to the Rosson House Museum, Arizona Science Center, Phoenix Museum of History, and discount savings at their respective museum gift shops (Awesome Atoms, Heritage Square Emporium & PMOH Gift Shop,) all located in Heritage & Science Park. The Teeter House Tea Room and Arizona Science Center Food Court also offer a discount with this passport. Passport Prices: Adults $19 & Children $10 each. Passports valid for 30 days after first use, one visit per venue. For further information please Click Here!

If your group is hosting a free public event at Historic Heritage Square and you would like it listed on this event page contact Rosson House Museum Office at 602.261.8063.

 For more events held inside Heritage & Science Park Click Here! to visit the City of Phoenix web site.

* denotes a free, but privately run event

Phoenix Museum of History

The Phoenix Museum of History is located in Heritage & Science Park (5th St. & Washington in downtown Phoenix). A variety of wonderful exhibits and programs are available. For more information about hours, exhibits and admission fees please call 602.253.2734 or Click Here! to visit their web site. Open Tuesday - Saturday.

Arizona Doll & Toy Museum

We invite you to visit the Arizona Doll & Toy Museum, located in the Stevens House at Historic Heritage Square in downtown Phoenix. There is a variety of dolls and toys from yesteryear, as well as familiar modern playthings. The scenario is constantly changing as Arizona collectors share their favorites. You will love the authentic schoolroom of 1912 featuring antique dolls as students. A fully stocked Gift Shop makes available unique gift items for children and adults who are young at heart. Now available for purchase in the Gift Shop: Pudgies and Enesco Kewpies. Museum Hours: (September - July) Tuesday through Saturday 10am to 4pm, Sunday Noon to 4pm. For admission and tour information call 602.253.9337.

A past favorite on exhibit...

The fully equipped “Class E. Dresser Ladies Shop and Hattie’s Millinery & Dry Goods” Store in miniature created by Mrs. Mott and her daughters, Barbara and Elizabeth (circa 1950), formerly located at Knott’s Berry Farm in Buena Park, California. “This is their shop entirely, from the furniture Barbara and Mrs. Mott made to the dozens of bolts of cloth and ribbon Elizabeth rolled (see image at left, courtesy of Kathy Lanford, of the miniature’s interior including the “bolts of fabric”). Mrs. Mott saved feathers for years in anticipation for this display, but when she and Barbara actually set about hand-making the tiny hats from photographs in the Delineator, an early women’s magazine, they found all of them too large. To solve the problem they simply visited a sporting goods store and bought up its stock of fishing fly feathers. The rolls of minute lace and cards of buttons came from old baby clothes Mrs. Mott bought up at rummage sales; the belts were made from little buckles found on ladies’ garments, and Barbara formed the corset around bobby pin “stays.” What looks like a dress form is an old perfume bottle, the telephone is an acquisition from a French doll house, and the iron cash register is a paperweight from NCR, given away with the purchase of a full-size cash register. Among the notions in the window are the smallest stork scissors the Motts have been able to find; they, and all the other scissors, actually cut.”

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