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1835 house of American merchant Thomas O. Larkin, which combined Spanish Colonial adobe materials with New England frame construction to originate the Monterey Colonial architecture style. [37] Now a house museum of Monterey State Historic Park. [38] 28: Los Coches Rancho: January 31, 1979 : 1 mi (1.6 km) S of Soledad on U.S. 101
Stevenson House kiosk provided by Monterey State Historic Park. The original adobe was built circa 1836 by Don Rafael Gonzalez, who was the customs administrator at the Port of Monterey. [4] Some of the walls are of chalk rock, which was laid up in mud mortar. Other walls are of wood frame. The exterior walls are plastered with limestone mortar.
During the early 1900s, Willis Linn Jepson characterized the forests on the Monterey Peninsula as the "most important silva ever", and encouraged Samuel F. B. Morse of the Del Monte Properties Company to explore the possibilities of preserving the unique forest communities. [12] The forests of the Monterey Peninsula are now called the Del Monte ...
View of the Old Custom House, photographed between 1898 and 1902. Fishermen at the Old Custom House, circa 1900. In 1821 New Spain—Mexico won independence from Spain, in the Mexican War of Independence, and for nearly 25 years Monterey was in the Mexican Territory of Alta California.
Several club members helped to start the Monterey Jazz Festival. The first festival was held in 1958. The Pacific Biological Laboratories club sold their building to the City of Monterey in December 1993 for $170,000; they retained access to the building until 2015. [10] A seismic rehabilitation of the building was done in 1998.
G.T. Marsh and Sons, also known as Marsh's Oriental Art Store, is a historic building in Monterey, California that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.It was listed on the National Register in 2007; the listing included one contributing building and one other contributing structure.
Monterey State Historic Park is a historic state park in Monterey, California. It includes part or all of the Monterey Old Town Historic District , a historic district that includes 17 contributing buildings and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1970.
The territory of the language group was bordered by Monterey Bay and the Pacific Ocean to the west, the Awaswas Ohlone to the north, the Mutsun Ohlone to the east, the Chalon Ohlone on the southeast, and the Esselen to the south. [5] Linda Yamane is an Ohlone scholar and basket weaver who traces her heritage to the Rumsen Ohlone. She has spent ...