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The house on Lemon Street is built circa 1884. Photo: 1887 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map showing the cottage on Lemon Street. Image courtesy of the Museum of Riverside, Riverside, California.
Purchase of the house on Lemon Street. Photo: December 23, 1915 Riverside Daily Press article covering the Haradas’ purchase of their home on Lemon Street. Image courtesy of the Museum of Riverside, Riverside, California.
Haradas hire Harp Brothers to renovate the home, adding a second floor. Photo: The Harada House, circa 1932. Image courtesy of the Museum of Riverside, Riverside, California.
Superior Court Case. Photo: October 6, 1916 headline in the Los Angeles Examiner reporting the start of the Haradas’ court case. Image courtesy of the Museum of Riverside, Riverside, California.
Judge Hugh Craig rules in favor of the Haradas, allowing them to keep their home. Photo: Craig Swan, grandchild of Superior Court Judge Hugh Craig, and Naomi Harada, grandchild of Jukichi and Ken Harada in 2022. Image courtesy of the Harada Family.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066. The order initiates the forced removal and incarceration of approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans. Photo: Instructions for the forced removal of Japanese Americans in Riverside, California, May 1942. Image courtesy of the Museum of Riverside, Riverside, California.
FBI raids and ransacks the house. Harold drives his parents Jukichi and Ken to their eldest son’s home in Sacramento. Photo: World War II Alien Registration for Ken Harada. Image courtesy of the Museum of Riverside, Riverside, California.
Daughter Sumi and son Harold are forcibly removed from the home and are sent to the Poston, Arizona, concentration camp. Harold writes in pencil on his bedroom wall, “Evacuated on May 23, 1942 Sat 7 AM.” Photo: Sumi Harada’s luggage tag from her forced removal to a US concentration camp. Image courtesy of the Museum of Riverside, Riverside, California.
Jukichi and Ken are forcibly removed to Tule Lake and then to the Topaz, Utah, concentration camp. Jukichi and Ken later die in the camp hospital. Photo: Jukichi and Ken Harada, circa 1940. Image courtesy of the Museum of Riverside, Riverside, California.
Daughter Sumi returns home to Lemon Street. Sumi uses the home as a boarding house for displaced Japanese Americans returning from the concentration camps. To add additional space for boarders, Sumi encloses the upstairs sleeping porch. Photo: Sumi in the Harada House kitchen, circa 1945. Image courtesy of the Museum of Riverside, Riverside, California.
The Harada House is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Photo: The Harada House, circa 1965. Image courtesy of the Museum of Riverside, Riverside, California.
House becomes a National Historic Landmark. Photo: The Harada House National Historic Landmark plaque, 1990. Image courtesy of the Museum of Riverside, Riverside, California.
Sumi dies. Her brother Harold begins work to donate the home to Riverside. Photo: Sumi Harada in front of the Harada House, 1983. Image courtesy of the Museum of Riverside, Riverside, California.
Harold dies and his children sign the deed for the house over to the City of Riverside. Photo: Harold Harada at the Harada House, circa 1991. Image courtesy of the Harada Family.
The Museum of Riverside becomes the steward of the Harada House. Photo: The Harada House, circa 2021. Image courtesy of the Museum of Riverside, Riverside, California.