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Los Cerritos Ranch House, also known as Rancho Los Cerritos or Casa de los Cerritos, in Long Beach, California, was "the largest and most impressive adobe residence erected in southern California during the Mexican period". [3] Los Cerritos means "the little hills" in English. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1970.
Site of First Adobe Home, Lake County is a historical landmark in Kelseyville, in Lake County, California. In 1847, Californio Salvador Vallejo , General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo 's younger brother, sold his livestock and grazing rights in the Clear Lake area to Andrew and Benjamin Kelsey , Charles Stone and E.D. Shirland.
The José Castro House (Spanish: Casa José Castro), sometimes known as the Castro-Breen Adobe, is a historic adobe home in San Juan Bautista, California, facing the Plaza de San Juan. The Monterey Colonial style house was built 1838-41 by General José Antonio Castro , a former Governor of Alta California .
Adobe wall (detail) in Bahillo, Palencia, Spain Renewal of the surface coating of an adobe wall in Chamisal, New Mexico Adobe walls separate urban gardens in Shiraz, Iran. Adobe (/ ə ˈ d oʊ b i / ⓘ ə-DOH-bee; [1] Spanish pronunciation:) is a building material made from earth and organic materials. Adobe is Spanish for mudbrick.
Rancho Petaluma Adobe is a historic ranch house in Sonoma County, California. It was built from adobe bricks in 1836 by order of Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo.It was the largest privately owned adobe structure built in California and is the largest example of the Monterey Colonial style of architecture in the United States.
The Kunz-Carbajal House (formally known as the Montgomery Homestead) was built in 1904 and is located at 1721 S. 7th Avenue. Built by pioneer Louis Kunz, it is among the oldest adobe houses still in existence in Phoenix. The house was later sold to Felix Carbajal, one of the first Filipinos to live in Phoenix.
The Cayetano Juárez Adobe, often called locally the Old Adobe, is the oldest building in Napa, California. Built in 1845 by early Californio settler Cayetano Juárez , the structure was originally a family house and was later converted to a restaurant and bar.
The Avila Adobe home is a good demonstration of the history of Los Angeles and how the city was first discovered. The city was first named El Pueblo de la Reina de Los Angeles, but then later renamed as Los Angeles. Before the construction of the Avila home, the city was a small town with a few homes and families that consisted of cattle ranchers.