Heritage House, Victorian house museum in Riverside, US

The Heritage House is a two-story museum building with high ceilings, wooden floors, and furnishings from the late 1800s filling each room. The original pieces and layout show how these spaces were designed and organized during that period.

Catherine Bettner, widow of an early citrus pioneer, had the house built in 1891–92. Architect John A. Walls of the Los Angeles firm Morgan and Walls designed it, and it joined the National Register of Historic Places on February 28, 1973.

The house shows how wealthy families in the late 1800s lived and moved through their rooms daily. The spaces with their furnishings and objects reveal what mattered to these people and how they organized their daily routines.

The house stands on Magnolia Avenue, a main thoroughfare when it was built in 1891-92. It is a two-story, 4,000-square-foot home, so allow time to climb between floors and to view the Moorish, Georgian and Chinese elements alongside the Queen Anne design.

The wallpapers in the rooms are original to the period and feature different patterns in each space based on the room's purpose. These wall coverings show how people expressed themselves through color and design in different areas of their homes.