Juan Avila Adobe
ClassificationsPhotographs
Date1936
Place DepictedSan Juan Capistrano, California, United States, North America
MediumPhotographic print
Credit LineTerry E. Stephenson Collection
Object number6577
DescriptionPhotograph of the Juan Avila adobe in San Juan Capistrano, about 1936. This was the home of Doña Magdalena Murrillo for many years and following her death (about 1940), became the office of the Justice of the Peace.The reverse of the photograph reads: Juan Avila Adobe taken in 1936 / San Juan Capistrano. / Here for many years, lived Doña / Magdalena Murrillo, fashionable modiste / of the period y. 1850. / She was devoted to the mission / died about 1940 / Following her death, the old adobe / was "re-conditioned" and became / the court room, for the Township.
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c. 1812
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