Peralta Adobe, Adobe building in San Jose, California
The Peralta Adobe is a clay brick house in San Jose made up of two connected rooms, each roughly 20 by 41 feet in size. The walls were built using hand-formed adobe blocks stacked together, a common building method in early California.
The structure was built in 1797 and later purchased by Luis María Peralta, after whom it was named. The building stands as one of the last remaining structures from the original settlement and documents the early decades of Spanish colonial settlement in this region.
The adobe represents early California architectural methods and stands as the last remaining structure from the Pueblo de San Jose de Guadalupe.
The building is located in the downtown area and can be visited to get a sense of daily life in the region's early period. Visitors should check ahead for when tours are available since it is not open every day.
The house was originally part of a larger settlement, and today it is the only structure from that era still standing at this location. This isolation makes it a rare window into an almost completely vanished world.
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