Editing Norwalk, California (section)

===The Sproul House===
[[File:Historic_Sproul_House_Exterior.png|alt=façade of the historical Sproul house in Norwalk. There is a porch on the right and a a flagpole in front flying an American flag.|left|thumb|Historic Sproul House]]
The [[Sproul House]] is a [[Stick Style]]-influenced,<ref>{{cite web|last1=Perissinotti|first1=Frank|title=Diagram of a Stick-Eastlake house |url=http://www.stclaircollege.ca/people/pages/fperissi/arc300ge/week8/STICK_EASTLAKE_VILLA.gif| website=Visual Communications – History of Architecture|date=2002}}</ref><ref name="Shrock2004">{{cite book|last=Shrock|first=Joel|title=The Gilded Age|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ey_j6sPJbgQC&pg=PA75|date=2004|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-32204-4|page=75 |quote=small wooden boards [...] that were often horizontal, diagonal, and vertical. [...] These decorative cross timbers were also called stickwork.}}</ref><ref name=McAlester>{{cite book|last=McAlester|first=Virginia & Lee|title=A Field Guide to American Houses|url=https://archive.org/details/fieldguidetoamer00mcal|url-access=registration|year=1984|publisher=Alfred A. Knopf|isbn=0-394-73969-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/fieldguidetoamer00mcal/page/254 254–261]}}</ref> [[Victorian architecture|Victorian]] farm house built in 1870 by the founder of Norwalk, Gilbert Sproul. He and his family lived there while he founded Norwalk. His descendants lived in the house continually until 1962 when it was donated to the city.<ref>Burt, Tim (Jul 3, 1977) "Early Norwalk Lives at Sproul Museum"
Long Beach Press-Telegram, Page 31 "Not many families open up their houses to thousands of visitors a year But that's what Vida Sproul Hunter did in 1962 when she donated the home of her grandfather Gilbert H Sproul to the city of Norwalk Since then schoolchildren and history buffs have visited the museum taking particular interest in such items as Civil War guns an old-fashioned disc-record set and farming equipment of the pre-1900s There is also an 1877 piano which according to museum curator Billie Robinson still sounds good A 1910 Edison phonograph is also on display...Sproul purchased the property in 1868 and built the house in 1870.  The house was moved in 1962 to its current location on Sproul Street and was opened to tourists in 1964. 'Most of the items we collected from residents when we opened in 1962' Mrs Robinson said 'All of the guns are from the Sproul family '. Vida Sproul Hunter was the last Sproul to live in the house After that the house was rented for a while and then donated to the city. During one year 28000 people toured the house. They've come from all over the area to see it. The house has remained basically the same structurally according to Mrs Robinson 'It's a well-built house to stand up this long We added a workshop and an office for me but those are the only changes '"</ref> Today it houses the Gilbert Sproul Museum which covers Norwalk history through artifacts, photos, documents and other interpretive elements.<ref name=":0">{{cite book |last1=Reece |first1=Daphne |title=Historic Houses of California |date=1983 |publisher=San Francisco, CA : Chronicle Books |isbn=0877012725 |page=114 |url=https://archive.org/details/historichousesof00reec/page/114/mode/2up?q=%22Gilbert+Sproul+house%22 |access-date=May 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://archive.org/details/historichousesof00reec/page/114/mode/2up |archive-date=January 23, 2012 |quote="Gilbert Sproul House 1970 Norwalk's founder, Gilbert Sproul, built this simple redwood home with few pretensions to architectural style. An adventurous Yankee from Maine, Sproul had traveled widely in the West Indies and the Orient before settling down as a lumber baron in Oregon; he also was quick to sense the opportunities when Southern California's great ranchos were subdivided and settlers poured into the state. His house became the scene of many of Norwalk's early town meetings. Donated with all its original furnishings to the city by Sproul's granddaughter in 1964, it is now a museum furnished with contemporary antiques."}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{cite book |title=A Guide to historic places in Los Angeles County : prepared under the auspices of the History Team of the City of Los Angeles American Revolution Bicentennial Committee |date=1978 |publisher=Dubuque, Iowa : Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co. |pages=232–233 |isbn=978-0-8403-7501-8 |url=https://archive.org/details/guidetohistoricp0000unse_o3k1/page/232/mode/2up |access-date=May 3, 2023 |quote="Gilbert Sproul, founder of Norwalk, built this redwood home for himself and his family in 1870. Many town meetings were held in this house, which was one of the first homes in the Norwalk area. Sproul's granddaughter, Vida Sproul Hunter, donated the home to the City, which moved the building about 100 yards to its present location, where since 1964 it has been open to the public as the Sproul Museum. Inside is now a city museum in Norwalk Park. Original furniture, much of which dates back to 1870, along with materials relating to the history of Norwalk, such as maps, early school pictures, and other city photographs. In addition there are displays of dolls, guns, and Indian artifacts."}}</ref>