A Photography Project
The Faulkner House in Santa Paula was built in 1894. The large, 2 1/2-story Queen Anne style house with its three story octagonal tower was a work of Ventura County’s prominent architect/builders Herman Anlauf and Franklin P. Ward.
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The first train depot in Ventura County was built in Santa Paula in 1887 on the Coast Line of the Southern Pacific Railroad, the main line between San Francisco and Los Angeles. It is now the home of the Santa Paula Chamber of Commerce.
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Lars & Karn Pederson were members of the Norwegian Colony that settled the Conejo Valley in 1890 in the area that would become Thousand Oaks. Their typical turn-of-the-century farmhouse and water tower were constructed in 1913-14.
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The Stagecoach Inn opened in 1876 as the Grand Union Hotel. Threatened by expansion of the Ventura Freeway in the 1960s, it was moved and is now an historic museum run by the Conejo Valley Historical Society.
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