Juan de Anza House, Historic adobe house in San Juan Bautista, California, United States.

The Juan de Anza House is a single-story adobe at the southwest corner of Franklin and Third streets in downtown San Juan Bautista. Its walls combine vertically placed wooden poles with mud bricks, finished inside and out in lime plaster. A low-pitch gabled roof of redwood shingles runs across an open veranda on square wooden posts. The front has four bays, three holding doors or full-height windows, and a wood-frame addition spans the rear.

The house was probably built around 1835, during the period when California was part of Mexico and after the Mission San Juan Bautista was secularized. Its construction methods predate the late 1830s, when American frame construction began to merge with the Mexican vernacular adobe style. In the 1870s Francisco Bravo adapted the building for commercial use as a cantina, and it has generally been used for commercial purposes since then. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1970.

The house's name recalls Juan de Anza, while its later use as a cantina under Francisco Bravo in the 1870s turned a Mexican-period residence into a commercial stop. Look for the four front bays, three filled by doors or full-height windows, and the open veranda running the building's width on square wooden posts.

The house is located downtown at the intersection of Franklin and Third streets, making it easy to find and visit. Inside, five rooms with redwood flooring from the 1800s show how people lived and organized their domestic space.

The house was probably built around 1835, after Mission San Juan Bautista was secularized, and its construction predates the late-1830s mixing of American frame methods with Mexican adobe. In the 1870s Francisco Bravo turned it into a cantina, and it has mostly served commercial uses since.