Monterey history photo collection

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Casa Castro, Historic Monterey Mesa

Casa Castro Monterey, #84-002-0001 Copyright© 1996 California Views
Photo Accession CV #84-002-0001
Original print 5x8"
By Charles C. Pierce # 326, a Los Angeles photographer
Circa 1880
The Casa Castro was built in the early nineteenth century. And is one of the oldest homes in Monterey. Built on the Monterey Mesa over looking Lake Estero and the San Carlos Church.
Gouverneur Morris and his wife purchased the property in the early 1920s. In 1936, the property came into the ownership of Thomas Albert Work, Sr. The Work name has been associated with La Mirada for fifty years. It is now the site of La Mirada of the Monterey Museum of Art's.

We have the largest collection of historical photos of the Monterey Bay area and it's history from 1865- today.

We also have photos of the Custom House, Colton Hall, Larkin House, Stevenson House, Merritt House, Casa Soberanes, Alvarado Adobe and most of the early adobes of Monterey.

Holdings: over 5,000 historical photographs of the Monterey area 21,500 photos of Monterey County. And over 30,000 digitized and cataloged in our database.
Please click to see over 170 Searchable California Photo galleries with over 9,200 photos
Prints are available in Black & White or Sepia.
All images are also available for editorial downloads and onetime editorial use.
Please keep checking back as we will be adding more galleries
This page was last updated on Fabruary 1, 2012

Copyright©2012 California Views Historical Photo Collection
To obtain permission to use any photographs please contact Mr. Pat Hathaway
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