The Lasky-DeMille Barn, where the Hollywood Heritage Museum is now located, was built in about 1895 on the Hollywood, California, citrus ranch of Robert Northam for horses, carriages, hay and other farm supplies. The place was sold in 1904 to Jacob Stern.
The barn was at the southeast corner of Selma and Vine Streets. In March 1913, the Burns and Revier Studio and Laboratory was established in the barn. In December of that year, Cecil B. DeMille, in association with Jesse Lasky, leased the barn and studio facilities for $25.00 a month and began production of The Squaw Man (1914).
In 1926, the barn was moved to the back lot of United Studios, where present day Paramount was later built. The Lasky-DeMille Barn was dedicated on December 27, 1956, as "Hollywood's First Major Film Company Studio" and designated California State Historic Landmark No. 554, representing the birth of the Hollywood motion picture industry.
In October 1979, the barn was moved off the Paramount lot to a vacant lot in Hollywood. It was then moved by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce to the parking lot of the Palace Theatre , where it was boarded up and fenced in until a permanent site could be found.
The Lasky-DeMille Barn was acquired by Hollywood Heritage, Inc., in February 1983. It was then moved to its present site at the southern end of the parking lot of the Hollywood Bowl, where it was restored and made into the Hollywood Heritage Museum.
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