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  2. Monterey State Historic Park - Wikipedia

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    Designated NHLD. April 15, 1970 [ 2] 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. [ 1][ 2] The grounds include California's first ...

  3. Cannery Row - Wikipedia

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    Cannery Row at night. Cannery Row is a waterfront street in the New Monterey section of Monterey, California, known for formerly being home to a number of now-defunct sardine canneries. The last closed in 1973. The street name, formerly a nickname for Ocean View Avenue, became official in January 1958 to honor John Steinbeck and his novel ...

  4. First theater in California - Wikipedia

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    136. Location in the Monterey Peninsula. The First Theater also known as the First theater in California, is a historic adobe and wood building in Monterey, California, United States. It was built in 1846-1847 as a lodging house and tavern for sailors, by English seaman and pioneer Jack Swan. Swan's Saloon staged the inaugural theatrical ...

  5. Robert Louis Stevenson House - Wikipedia

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    72000239 [1] Added to NRHP. January 7, 1972. The Stevenson House, is a historic two-story Spanish Colonial style building located at 530 Houston Street in Monterey, California. It was a boarding house called the French Hotel, built circa 1836. The Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson lived there in 1879, writing and courting his future wife.

  6. Colton Hall - Wikipedia

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    Colton Hall is a government building and museum in Monterey, California, United States. It was built in 1847-49 by Walter Colton, who arrived in Monterey as the chaplain on Commodore Robert F. Stockton 's vessel. He remained and was named as Monterey's first alcalde (mayor) in the American Period.

  7. Monterey Museum of Art - Wikipedia

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    Monterey Museum of Art. / 36.597295; -121.896637. The Monterey Museum of Art ( MMA) an art museum located in Monterey, California. It was founded in 1959 as a chapter of the American Federation of Arts. The Monterey Museum of Art collects, preserves, and interprets the art of California from the nineteenth century to the present day.

  8. Golden State Theatre - Wikipedia

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    The theater originally had 1,600 seats at a time when the population of Monterey was just around 6,000. For a long time the Golden State Theatre was the largest theater between San Francisco and Los Angeles. [citation needed] In addition to the theater, the building has a number of leasable commercial spaces.

  9. Monterey, California - Wikipedia

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    Monterey (/ ˌ m ɒ n t ə ˈ r eɪ / ⓘ MON-tə-RAY; Spanish: Monterrey) is a city in Monterey County on the southern edge of Monterey Bay on the U.S. state of California's Central Coast. Founded on June 3, 1770, Monterey was the second permanent settlement (after San Diego) established by Spanish explorers in what is now California.