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Casa del Oro. The Casa del Oro—or "House of Gold" in Spanish—is in the Custom House Plaza. Built in 1849 as an army barracks, then as a hospital for sailors run by Thomas Larkin. Later the building was used as general store run by Joseph Boston in the 1850s.
Casa de Oro, Ca looking east on Campo Road with Santa Sophia Church on the left hand side. Casa de Oro (Spanish for "House of Gold") is a neighborhood in east San Diego County, California, United States. The community, 12 miles east of San Diego, is in the unincorporated town of Spring Valley and an unincorporated part of La Mesa.
Casa de Oro-Mount Helix is a census-designated place (CDP) in the East County region of San Diego County, California. The CDP encompasses several unincorporated neighborhoods near the cities of El Cajon and La Mesa and the CDP of Spring Valley. Locations in the northern (Mount Helix) part of the CDP use La Mesa addresses, while locations in the ...
The Ca' d'Oro, or Palazzo Santa Sofia, is a palace on the Grand Canal in Venice, northern Italy. Ca' d'Oro or Cadoro translates to "House of Gold" or "Golden House" in English because of the gilt and polychrome external decorations that once adorned its walls. [1] [2] It was designed by Marino Contarini and later restored by Baron Giorgio ...
Casa de Estudillo: San Diego: 1827 Residence [55] Old Monterey Custom House: Monterey: 1827 Custom house: Oldest government building in California. Served as the only port of entry to Alta California. Casa de Bandini: San Diego: 1827–29 Residence The adobe first floor was built between 1827 and 1829. The building was later expanded during the ...
It opened as Club Casa del Mar, a private beach club, on May 1, 1926. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] Designed by Los Angeles architect Charles F. Plummer to reflect an Italian Renaissance Revival aesthetic, the glory days of the hotel spanned 1926-41, as it became one of the most successful beach clubs in Southern California, popular with socialites and Hollywood ...
The Casa O'Higgins is a colonial-style building located in the historic centre of Lima, specifically located in the Jirón de la Unión, a few metres from the Plaza de Armas of the Peruvian capital. Since 2008, the house has functioned as a cultural centre of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and a permanent space dedicated to the ...
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.