A timeless landmark to celebrate history
and create memories.

Yes. The Chimes is the event venue inside The Crescent House, and it hosts weddings, receptions, quinceañeras, milestone birthdays, family reunions, and corporate functions. Indoor rooms and outdoor spaces are both available, so a gathering of thirty and a wedding of three hundred can each find the right fit. Ceremonies usually happen in the Rose Garden, cocktail hour in The Library Speakeasy, and dinner and dancing in Fountain Plaza. Tell us your date and rough guest count through the booking button and we will reply within one to two business days with availability.

We book celebrations of up to about 300 guests across the property, with the Rose Garden, the Fountain Plaza courtyard, The Library Speakeasy, and the Victorian parlors all in use through the evening. What each space takes depends on your layout, since a seated dinner with a dance floor takes more room than a standing reception, and most events here use more than one space across the evening. Share your headcount and roughly how you picture the evening when you inquire, and we will confirm the configuration and the final count for your date.

Yes. Boutique office suites sit inside the same restored 1887 landmark as the event venue, with shared coworking for one person or a small team, on flexible terms rather than a long commercial lease. There is also a virtual office plan if you need the address and a mailbox before you need the desk, and you can upgrade to a coworking desk or a semi-private suite later without your business address ever changing. Building access runs Monday through Friday, 8am to 6pm. Ask about a walkthrough and we will show you what is open.

Catering runs through our preferred vendor list, which we share when you inquire, so you are choosing from people who already know the building and how it works. For the bar, you may bring your own licensed bar vendor, and every bar vendor must present a valid ABC permit, liability insurance, and certified bartenders in advance. Cocktail service happens in The Library Speakeasy. Because the building is historic, some outside rentals may need to bring their own power source, so tell us what you plan to bring and we will flag anything that needs arranging.

Yes. A few on-site spaces are kept for VIP arrivals, and there is additional parking throughout the historic downtown district, most of it a short walk from the front door. A private reserved lot directly across the street is being built now and will open soon, which will put guest parking within a few steps of the entrance. Until then, plan on the downtown district, and tell us when you book if anyone in your party has trouble walking so we can talk through the closest options.

It was one of Southern California's celebrated mineral-springs health resorts. Built in 1887 over a natural hot spring, the bath house drew visitors from across the country who came to soak in its 132-degree sulfur waters and mineral baths, long considered a remedy for arthritis, rheumatism, and other ailments. Lake Elsinore was a destination town in those years and the building sat at the center of it. That same landmark is The Crescent House today, with The Chimes as its event venue, and the history tour walks the parts that are open as restoration continues.

It is. It went up in 1887 as the Crescent Bath House, and that is the name it carries on the National Register, reference number 75000453, added July 30, 1975. That status is part of why the restoration moves the way it does, room by room, keeping original woodwork, stained glass, and detail rather than replacing it. It also shapes practical things here: the Graham Avenue entrance has steps, there is no elevator to the second floor, and some outside rentals need their own power source. Ask early and we will tell you plainly what the building allows.

It has a reputation. Decades of visitors have shared ghost stories tied to the old bathhouse, and it's long been considered one of the most storied buildings in the valley. We'll let you decide.