as pamela seager told you, originally the city did a look to the ranch. and, we completed a restoration in 2014 to align the barns in a more gridlike pattern. as they would have been originally. the bixbys did make a lot of changes to the grounds. they had gardens here, but back then, you have to hand water everything. so, you were very careful about what you chose to grow here and how much labor it was going to take. here, seead animals you had to have a sense that the intervals might come and eat what you were trying to grow and plant. john and susan bixby put in the first extensive gardens and the gardens just off of this room, called the old garden, were installed by john and susan bixby. when fred and florence took over, florence began slowly expanding the gardens. but one of the things that happened here in long beach in the early 1920's, was the discovery of oil. because the bixby's were very large landowners in long beach, a lot of the oil was under their land. including one that was a huge oil strike. this gave them a lot more income to play with