Diego Sepulveda Adobe
One of the oldest standing buildings in Orange County, the Diego Sepulveda Adobe built around 1820, encompasses nearly 200 years of Costa Mesa history in Estancia Park, overlooking the Santa Ana River bed.
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California Historical Landmark
Oak Grove Stage Station
The Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach service operated from 1858 to 1861 when disrupted by the Civil War. The Oak Grove Stage Station, near Warner Springs, is one of the few, if not the only station still standing on the entire route.
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Pío Pico Casa
The adobe home of the last governor of Mexican California, Don Pio Pico, stands on the grounds of Pio Pico State Historic Park in Whittier. The five acre park was once part of Pico’s 9,000 acre ranch, Rancho Paso de Bartolo.
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El Adobe de Capistrano
The Miguel Yorba Adobe in San Juan Capistrano, built circa 1797, and a courthouse with a jail in the basement built to its south around 1812 were connected in 1910 and built into El Adobe de Capistrano restaurant which opened in 1948.
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Ramona Bowl
The Ramona Pageant, the love story of Ramona and Alessandro (a “Romeo and Juliet set in the Wild Wild West”), has been performed annually at the Ramona Bowl, a natural amphitheater in the foothills above Hemet, since 1923.
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La Purísima Mission
Built in the 1810s, Mission La Purísima Concepción, or La Purísima Mission, near Lompoc is the most completely restored of the California mission complexes and one of only two missions no longer governed by the Catholic Church.
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Santora Building
The Santora Building occupies almost half an acre in the heart of the Santa Ana Arts District. Frank Lansdowne designed it in 1929 in the Spanish Renaissance Revival style with notable Churrigueresque ornamentation and ornamental ironwork.
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