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Egan House (San Juan Capistrano, California)

USA / California / San Juan Capistrano / San Juan Capistrano, California / Camino Capistrano, 32892
 house, place with historical importance, 1898_construction

32892 Camino Capistrano
San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675

The Egan House, located across from El Adobe de Capistrano Restaurant, was constructed in 1883. After a fire in 1897 destroyed the upper part of the structure, it was rebuilt in 1898. The house is a Victorian/Greek Revival building. It was built of terra cotta brick brought from San Diego. The bricks were “left over” from a slight “miscalculation” on the part of Richard Egan when he was ordering the bricks for Casa Grande. Casa Grande was the former home of Marcos Forster family on El Camino Real and which torn down in 1965.

Judge Richard Egan was born in Ireland and settled in San Juan Capistrano in 1868. He purchased 160 acres at $1.25 an acre on the north end of town on Camino Capistrano. He later sold the land to R. Y. and W. B. Williams for $60,000. He first lived in an adobe on this ranch, but the adobe was later washed away in a flood.

The Egan House is a part of the Self-Guided Historic Walking Tour of San Juan Capistrano. Maps of the city\'s \"Walking Tour Guide to Historic San Juan Capistrano” are available at City Hall, in map dispensers mounted on downtown directional signs, or by calling the City at 949-493-1171. The brochure gives a full description of each of the sites and buildings numbered on the map.

www.sanjuancapistrano.org/Index.aspx?page=439
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Coordinates:   33°29'58"N   117°39'44"W
This article was last modified 8 years ago