Los Rios Street Historic District, Historic district in San Juan Capistrano, California, United States.
Los Rios Street Historic District is a neighborhood in San Juan Capistrano where three adobe structures remain from an original set of 40. Most adobes were replaced in the 19th century by wooden board-and-batten buildings, and 31 buildings on and around the street are listed on the National Register of Historic Places as of 1983.
The district began in 1794 as a settlement for workers of Mission San Juan Capistrano and the craftspeople who built there. Three original adobe homes from this early period still stand today.
The street shows how Spanish colonists, Native Americans, and European settlers built their lives together in this place. You can see this mix in the different types of houses and how people still use the space today.
Los Rios Street runs just east of Mission San Juan Capistrano, within walking distance of the mission and the San Juan Capistrano train depot. The street itself is narrow and lined with adobe and board-and-batten buildings, so it is explored on foot; visitors pass through the neighborhood rather than drive along it.
Of the roughly 40 adobe houses that once stood in the neighborhood, only three remain within Los Rios itself; the rest of the surrounding adobes lie close by and belonged to the same larger settlement. Most of the earlier buildings were replaced in the 19th century by wooden board-and-batten houses.
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