Mesa Historical Museum

The Mesa Historical Museum
	Location within Arizona
Established	1987
Location	2345 N. Horne St., Mesa, ArizonaMesa, Arizona
Coordinates	33°27′31″N 111°48′48″W / 33.4585°N 111.8132°W
Type	History museum
Website	www.mesahistoricalmuseum.com
	Lehi School
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Area	5 acres (2.0 ha)
Built	1913
Built by	Works Progress Administration
Architectural style	Mission/spanish Revival, Moderne
NRHP reference No.	01000906
Added to NRHP	August 30, 2001

The Mesa Historical Museum is a historical museum in Mesa, Arizona, United States. It was opened in 1987 by the Mesa Historical Society to preserve the history of Mesa, Arizona.

The museum's exhibits include a comprehensive history of Mesa, a replica of an early adobe one-room schoolhouse, as well as additional galleries of changing exhibits. The museum also maintains a large collection of historic agricultural equipment.

The museum buildings are in fact the museum's largest artifacts. The main museum building was built in 1913-1914 for use as the Lehi School in what was then Lehi, Arizona. The auditorium was built in the 1930s as a Works Progress Administration project. The two-building complex was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001 as the "Lehi School".^[2]

In 2008, the museum began developing a popular exhibit about Spring Training (baseball) in Arizona, called "Play Ball: The Cactus League Experience." The exhibition has since expanded to locations throughout Maricopa County.^[3]

References

^ "National Register Information System – (#01000906)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
^ "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Lehi School". National Park Service. Retrieved January 6, 2022. With accompanying pictures
^ "Project leader: 'Play Ball' exhibit needs its own museum", "East Valley Tribune," September 1, 2010, accessed May 10, 2011.

External links

Mesa Historical Museum – official site
Play Ball: The Cactus League Experience

[nris-1] "National Register Information System – (#01000906)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.

[nrhpdoc-2] "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Lehi School". National Park Service. Retrieved January 6, 2022. With accompanying pictures

[3] "Project leader: 'Play Ball' exhibit needs its own museum", "East Valley Tribune," September 1, 2010, accessed May 10, 2011.

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