Jose Castro House

Infobox_nrhp | name =Jose Castro House
nrhp_type =nhl


caption = Jose Castro House
location= San Juan Bautista, California, USA
lat_degrees = 36
lat_minutes = 50
lat_seconds = 40.78
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 121
long_minutes = 32
long_seconds = 4.86
long_direction = W
locmapin = California
area =
built =1840
architect= Castro,Jose
architecture= Colonial, Other
designated= May 15, 1970cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=900&ResourceType=Building
title=Jose Castro House |accessdate=2007-11-17|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service]
added = April 15, 1970cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
governing_body = State
refnum=70000141

Jose Castro House in San Juan Bautista, California, USA, is a historic adobe home built by José Castro, Commandant General of Northern California. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1970.citation|title=PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Text/70000141.pdf National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: ] |235 KB|date=April 5, 1976 |author=James Dillon |publisher=National Park Service and PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Photos/70000141.pdf Accompanying 2 photos, exterior, from 1968.] |465 KB] It is part of the San Juan Bautista Plaza Historic District, which is itself an National Historic Landmark District.

It has been open to the public since 1935 [ [http://www.nr.nps.gov/writeups/70000141.nl.pdf NHL Writeups] ]

References

External links

* [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.ca0556 General Jose Castro House: 31 photos] , at Historic American Building Survey
* [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hh:@field(NUMBER+@band(CA0556)) Smithsonian Institution, Americas Memory]