Jose Castro House, now known as the Castro-Breen Adobe, in San Juan Bautista, California

San Juan Bautista, California

San Juan Bautista is a city in San Benito County, California, United States. The population was 1,862 at the 2010 census, up from 1,549 at the 2000 census. The city of San Juan Bautista was named after Mission San Juan Bautista...

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United States

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, is a historic adobe

Adobe

Adobe is a natural building material made from sand, clay, water, and some kind of fibrous or organic material , which the builders shape into bricks using frames and dry in the sun. Adobe buildings are similar to cob and mudbrick buildings. Adobe structures are extremely durable, and account for...

 home built by José Castro in 1840, Commandant General of Alta California

Alta California

Alta California was a province and territory in the Viceroyalty of New Spain and later a territory and department in independent Mexico. The territory was created in 1769 out of the northern part of the former province of Las Californias, and consisted of the modern American states of California,...

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The Jose Castro House was declared a National Historic Landmark

National Historic Landmark

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 in 1970.

It is part of the San Juan Bautista Plaza Historic District, which is itself an National Historic Landmark District.

The Jose Castro House has been open to the public since 1935.

External links

• General Jose Castro House: 31 photos, at Historic American Building Survey
• Smithsonian Institution, Americas Memory