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Don José Castro, a former Governor of Alta California. José Castro House in 1934. José Antonio Castro's father José Tiburcio Castro was a soldier, member of the Diputación (the legislature of Alta California), [4] administrator of Mission San Juan Bautista after it was secularized, and grantee of Rancho Sausal.
Location of San Benito County in California. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in San Benito County, California.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in San Benito County, California, United States.
The Juan de Anza House (Spanish: Casa Juan de Anza), also known as the Casa de Anza (English: Anza House), is a historic adobe house in San Juan Bautista, California. Built around 1830, Casa de Anza is a well-preserved example of residential construction from the period of Mexican California. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1970 ...
The Rozas House is a historic house located at 31 Polk St. in San Juan Bautista, California, United States.The house, which was built in 1856, is long and narrow and consists of a series of rooms opening to the outside and an interior courtyard, an unusual style for wood-frame houses.
The Benjamin Wilcox House, at 315 The Alameda in San Juan Bautista, California, was built in 1858.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. [1]It was designed by local builder George Chalmers in Gothic Revival style. [2]
The Marentis House, at 45 Monterey Street in San Juan Bautista, California, was built in 1873.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. [1]It was designed in Gothic Revival style by George Chalmers, a local builder/architect who was from New England and was believed to have been influenced by Alexander Jackson Davis, an architect who authored/illustrated pattern books.
Thus San Juan Bautista was a popular stopping stop on the El Camino Real road to Monterey. Monterey was the Capitol of California from 1776 to 1849. [2] In 1861, stagecoach service came to San Juan, and the Plaza Stables were built to house and care for the many stagecoach horses. The Plaza Hotel became popular and well known in this time.
In 1838, Mission San Juan Capistrano property was auctioned off under questionable circumstances for $710 worth of tallow and hides, (equivalent to $15,000 in 2004 U.S. dollars) to Englishman John (Don Juan) Forster (Governor Pío Pico's brother-in-law, whose family would take up residence in the friars' quarters for the next 20 years) and his ...