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Oldest building in City of San Francisco. The original chapel, built in 1771, was rebuilt out of adobe from 1782 to 1791. Cathedral of San Carlos Borromeo: Monterey: 1791-94 Cathedral: Part of the Presidio of Monterey. Oldest stone building in California and the second oldest extant cathedral in the United States. Plaza Hotel: San Juan Bautista ...
The House of the Four Winds, or La Casa de Los Vientos, is a historic adobe building located at 540 Calle Principal in Monterey, California. It was built by Thomas O. Larkin in 1834 (or 1840). The house acquired its named because of the weather vane on its hipped roof. The building was used as the first State of California Hall of Records.
The Peralta Adobe (Spanish: Adobe Peralta), [3] also known as the Luis María Peralta Adobe or the Gonzales-Peralta Adobe, [4] is the oldest building in San Jose, California. [5] The adobe was built in 1797 by José Manuel Gonzeles, one of the founders of San Jose, and is named after Luis María Peralta, its most famous resident.
The building, built in a Tudor Revival and Gothic Revival style, [1] [2] covers 10,440 sq ft (970 m 2) on a 30,000 sq ft (2,800 m 2) lot. The house has three stories and is made from Italian bricks with Peruvian mahogany paneling. A 56 ft (17 m)-tall chapel adjoining the building was converted into a ballroom but is mainly used as a recording ...
The Brockman Building is a 12-story Classical and Romanesque Revival building located in Downtown Los Angeles. Built in 1912, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. Built in 1912, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.
In 2011, the building was renovated as part of the Bringing Back Broadway campaign. In 2013, Ross Dress for Less opened in the building, and in 2014, the building was put up for auction with an opening bid of $4 million ($5.15 million in 2023). [4] It sold for $12.6 million ($16.1 million in 2023). [5]
The program is overseen by a Historic Preservation Commission made up of citizens appointed by the City Council with special expertise and interest in historic preservation. [3] In the first five years of the city's historic preservation program (1992-1997), 12 buildings were listed on the Bakersfield Register of Historic Places.
The lower floors were occupied by merchants, three of whom later became The Big Four (with Charles Crocker), hence the buildings' name. The Big Four were associated with the founding of the First transcontinental railroad linking California with the Eastern U.S. — and were Collis Huntington, Mark Hopkins, Jr., Leland Stanford, and Charles Crocker.