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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: September 11, 2013
Caption: The Stevenson House Marker
Additional Description: Captions: Robert Louis Stevenson spent his time in Monterey writing, exploring and making friends. (top right); ”The town, when I was there, was a place of two or three streets, economically paved with sea-sand...” (center); The oldest parts of this adobe date from 1840. It was built by Rafael Gonzales, an administrator of the Custom House. Swiss immigrant Juan Girardin and his wife Manuela Perez de Girardin expanded the building and rented rooms to sailors, tradesmen, and artists. (bottom left).
Submitted: September 28, 2013, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p255352
File Size: 3.394 Megabytes

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