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Item Title
Plaza Hotel, Second Street, San Juan Bautista Plaza, San Juan Bautista, San Benito County, CA
LocationSan Juan Bautista Plaza,
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1933.
Notes
Survey number HABS CA-1954
Building/structure dates:
1855 initial construction
National Register Number: 69000038
Significance: The Plaza Hotel is located on the site of the original barracks for the soldiers of the Mission San Juan Bautista, which was founded in 1797 as California's fifteenth mission. The church and attached arcaded monastery on the northwest side of San Juan Plaza were completed in 1812. The soldiers' quarters on the southwest side of the plaza -- consisting of a one story adobe and an adjoining two story guard house -- were completed in 1815. Beginning in 1835, San Juan served as headquarters for Jose Tiburcio Castro while he served as the mission's secular administrator. From 1839 to 1848 it was headquarters for his son, Jose Antonio Castro, while he was prefect of the "First District" (Northern California) and then as comandante of California. San Juan developed into a prosperous commercial center shortly after the occupation of California by the United States. In 1855 an Italian chef, Angelo Zanetta, purchased the property on which the soldiers' quarters was located, combined the two existing structures, and added a wood framed second story to the adobe to complete the structure as it exists today.
Related Names
Zanetta, Angelo
Collection
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
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Photograph caption(s):
1. Photocopy of photograph (from the collection of V. Covert Martin, Stockton, California) Photographer unknown 1925 EAST FRONT AND NORTH SIDE
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