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The Riverside Metropolitan Museum welcomes supporters of the National Historic Landmark Harada House Preservation Project. Your donation of funds will be utilized for the restoration, preservation, and interpretation of the Harada House. Your support will ensure the preservation of this National Historic Landmark for future generations.

The Riverside Metropolitan Museum is pleased to announce that in collaboration with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, interested supporters are able to donate funds to the Harada House Preservation Project through this esteemed historic preservation organization. The National Trust for Historic Preservation is a 501(c) 3 charitable organization and your gift is fully tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law less the fair market value of any tangible benefits.

Tour Information
The National Historic Landmark Harada House is currently not open to the public as the preservation projects continue. However, a hard hat tour of the site by appointment only will be available by the fall/winter of 2007.

  • Additional Resources/Links:
  • University of California, Riverside, Asian American Riverside, www.asianamericanriverside.ucr.edu
  • Riverside chapter, Japanese American Citizens League
  • Japanese American National Museum
  • California Council for the humanities

For more information about the National Historic Landmark Harada House Preservation Project:
Museum Curator of Historic Structures and Collections, Lynn Voorheis

The Harada House Story
  1. The Lemon Street House
  2. Japanese are Evacuated During WWII
  3. The Internment Camps
  4. Sumi Returns to Her Family Home
  5. Site Preservation
  6. Collections Preservation
  7. Community Outreach
  8. Support Opportunities
  9. PDF of All Photos (21.9M)
Reading the Walls
Lesson Resources
Lesson 1
Oral Interviews
Lesson 3
Oral Interviews
Harada House Mission
The National Historic Landmark Harada House promotes cultural inclusiveness and civic engagement through its interpretation and preservation of the Harada family site, artifact, archival, and oral history collections. This site embodies the experiences of the Harada family, a Japanese immigrant family, from their arrival to California in 1905 through their struggles to achieve land ownership and equal treatment in becoming and being American citizens.
Harada House Vision
The National Historic Landmark Harada House promotes tolerance, understanding, and acceptance of all cultures founded upon the Harada family’s experiences as Japanese immigrants to the United States.
Visiting Harada House
Due to its fragile condition, Harada House is not open to the public.