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Benjamin Wilcox House

house in San Juan Bautista, California

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ85746600 ↗
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The Benjamin Wilcox House, at 315 The Alameda in San Juan Bautista, California, was built in 1858. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

It was designed by local builder George Chalmers in Gothic Revival style. It is a clapboarded balloon-frame L-shaped house built with redwood floor joists and sawn redwood studs. It has split pillars with Tuscan-order capitals, somehow involving fleur-de-lis.

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“Benjamin Wilcox House” enters the record as house in San Juan Bautista, California. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Benjamin, Wilcox and House can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1858, 1982—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1858. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Benjamin, Wilcox and House.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q85746600. Authority coordinates are 36.840, -121.534. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1858 and 1982.

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This entry incorporates text from “Benjamin Wilcox House” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.