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The most important public office building in Monterey County still in continuous use, Colton Hall has over the years housed Monterey's City Hall, a public school, the county court house, the sheriff's office, and Monterey's city police headquarters. The second floor is a museum which was established in 1949.
Monterey: 1847 Residence Built as a residence in 1847. Converted to the headquarters of the Monterey Whaling Company in 1855. [125] Colton Hall: Monterey: 1847–49 Government: First seat of government of the U.S. state of California. [126] Jose Joaquin Castro Adobe: Watsonville: 1848–49 Residence Only two-story hacienda ever built in Santa ...
Following the establishment of a public school system in the 1849 Constitution (debated and written in Colton Hall), Colton Hall in Monterey served as the area's public school 1849-1851. Built from 1847 to 1849 as Monterey's town hall and school house from 1847 to 1849, it also served as the public school from 1872 to 1896.
Colton Hall in Monterey (2013). Monterey County was one of the original counties formed when California assumed statehood in 1850. As the capitol of the former Alta California, the county seat was established initially at Monterey.
On July 20, 1970, the State Department of Parks and Recreation & City of Pacific Grove erected a landmark marker Number 839 at the Chautauqua Hall in Pacific Grove. Colton Hall: 126: Colton Hall: 570 Pacific St. Monterey: Custom House: 1: Custom House
Colton Hall. In 1849, the California constitution was drafted in both English and Spanish in this building. In 1850 California became the thirty-first state of America. San Jose was then elected as the seat of California state government, ending Monterey's years as California's capital.
Colton Hall, now preserved as a museum, was the site of the 1849 California Constitutional Convention. For a time it served as a grade school. The Walter Colton Middle School, located some two miles uphill from Colton Hall, was named in his honor and is a part of the Monterey Peninsula Unified School District. [9]
The Vásquez House on Dutra Street is located directly across the street from Colton Hall at 570 Pacific Street and near the old county jail. Colton Hall is a government building and museum. It was the site of California's first constitutional convention in 1849. [5]