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Building History

Edward Mahar, erected this large Colonial Revival house originally for his parents at a site at 1st Street and Front Street in the Nob Hill neighborhood of San Pedro. In 1901, the San Pedro shipbuilder, William Adolph August Muller, (1865-1936), bought the house and between 1906-1963, it was inhabited by him, his wife, Elsie Adelle Royal Muller, (1871-1959), and their four children, Augusta Elsie Augusta Muller, (1889-1975), Sarah Margarethe Muller, (1893-1983), Agnes Kathleen Muller, (1895-1983), and William Royal Muller, (1903-1970). In 1912, alterations to Front Street (which became Harbor Boulevard) and alterations to Nob Hill itself caused the Muller house to be moved for the first time to 575 West 19th Street, (19th Street and Grand Avenue).

The Muller family donated it to the San Pedro Bay Historical Society in 1963 who moved it once again in 1986 to its current location on Beacon Street. It was named Los Angeles City Historic-Cultural Monument No. 253 in 1982 by the Los Angeles Conservancy, and houses an historical museum maintained by the San Pedro Bay Historical Society to illustrate an upper-middle class residence of the 1920s.