| From the Guidebook: |
The Santa Paula Hardware
Company Building, more commonly referred to as the Union
Oil Company Building, is significant for its historical
importance as the birthplace of the Union Oil Company
on October 17,1890. The building continued to serve as
a field division office after the main headquarters moved
to Los Angeles in 1900. In 1950 the Union Oil Museum was
established and in 1990, for its Centennial Celebration,
the building was restored to its original appearance and
reopened as a new state-of-the-art oil museum.
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