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Los Rios Street Historic District (San Juan Capistrano, California)

USA / California / San Juan Capistrano / San Juan Capistrano, California / Los Rios Street, 3232
 neighbourhood, historic landmark

The Los Rios Historic District was placed on the National Register of Historic Places April 4, 1983. This District includes 31 historic structures which line both sides of the street from Del Obispo to Mission Street. The District’s registered boundaries lie within the locally designated Los Rios Historic Area, a 40-acre planning area which includes homes, “cottage” businesses, a park, and museums, and is one of the oldest neighborhoods in California.

The Los Rios District lies directly across the railroad tracks from the Capistrano Depot and is the oldest neighborhood in California. The homes that remain here include three original adobe structures. The Montanez, the Rios, and the Silvas are all that remain of the adobes that housed the builders of the mission and the mission ranch workers in the late 1700's and early 1800's. During these early years, as the Great Stone Church was being built, the mission was prospering as the center of the economy for the Spanish and the Acjachemen Indians who were beginning to merge their cultures. Many of the other homes here were built by European immigrants in the late 1800's and early 1900's.

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Coordinates:   33°30'4"N   117°39'56"W
This article was last modified 16 years ago