Santa Clara Women's Club Adobe
Women's Club in Stanta Clara, California, USA.
The Santa Clara Women's Club Adobe, also known as the Santa Clara Woman's Club, is a historic adobe structure in Santa Clara, California, dating back to 1880. Its construction can be attributed to the efforts of Franciscan padres from Mission Santa Clara de Asís. This adobe house, one of the oldest in the Santa Clara Valley, was part of a series of homes built between 1792 and 1800 to provide housing for Native American families associated with Mission Santa Clara. In 1913, the Santa Clara Woman's Club purchased the adobe structure. California Historical Landmark plaque #249 now marks the location of the Santa Clara Women's Club Adobe.
History
The adobe house is the sole surviving original structure from the Spanish missions era (formerly the region Alta California in the Spanish Empire), dating back to 1800, which was once an integral component of the third mission site. This compound consisted of a five parallel rows of 30 homes constructed to house Native American families associated with Mission Santa Clara. In its present-day role, this adobe structure is known as the Santa Clara Women's Club Adobe, as it has functioned as their clubhouse since 1907. Don José Peña was the proprietor of the adobe house in 1850, and his wife resided here until her death in 1883.
Each of these dwellings, constructed from adobe bricks and tile roofs, featured two rooms and an attic.
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