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Custom House (1827) when Monterey was capital of Mexican California until American Marines under Commodore Sloat took California in 1846 (on Custom House Plaza). On National Register.
| Custom House.
| Custom House with ox cart.
| Custom House with ox cart.
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Fountain on Custom House Plaza.
| Pacific House (1847) now Monterey Museum of the American Indian (on Custom House Plaza).
| Pacific House details of Monterey-style architecture.
| Pacific House portal detail.
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Stevenson House (late 1830s) where author Robert Louis Stevenson lived in 1879 (on Houston St. near Pearl).
On National Register.
| Stevenson House aka French hotel.
| Cooper-Molera Adobe (1831-2) by Captain John Rogers Cooper (at Munras & Polk Sts.).
| Cooper-Molera Adobe front door & shutters.
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Cooper-Molera Adobe overview.
| Casa del Oro (1845) served as gold depository & private house (at Scott & Olivier Sts.).
| California's First Theatre (c1840s) by Jack Swan also served as boarding house for sailors (on Pacific at Scott St.).
| California's First Theatre entrance detail.
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California's First Theatre entrance & performance wing.
| Casa Soberanes, built late Mexican period (c1840s) by Don Jose Rafael Estrada (on Soberanes near Pacific St.).
| Casa Soberanes garden details.
| Succulent in garden of Casa Soberanes.
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Casa Don Florencio Serrano, Alcalde of old Monterey (pre 1847) (on Pacific south of Franklin).
| Underwood-Brown adobe (1843) now city executive offices (on Madison at Pacific Sts.).
| Porch of Underwood-Brown adobe.
| Tiburcio Vasquez adobe (on Dutra opposite Colton Hall).
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Casa Joaquin de la Torre, Alcalde of old Monterey (pre 1847) (on Pierce at Jefferson Sts.).
| Casa Joaquin de la Torre entrance.
| Lara-Soto Adobe (pre 1847) (on Pierce north of Jefferson St.).
| Cactus at Lara-Soto Adobe.
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Thomas Oliver Larkin Adobe House (1835) served as American Consulate (1844-6) & is prototype of Monterey-style architecture (464 Main St. at Jefferson). On National Register.
| Adobe house (late 1830s) later used as Quarters by Lieutenant (later Civil War General) William Tecumseh Sherman during occupation of 1847 (on Main beside Larkin House).
| William T. Sherman Adobe quarters.
| Casa Joaquin Gutierrez (pre 1847) now Thomas Kinkaix Museum & Cultural Center (on Main at Hartwell).
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Dr. James Stokes adobe (c late 1840s) (at Hartwell & Main Sts.).
| Front door of Stokes adobe.
| Gabriel de la Torre adobe (pre 1847), thought to be the first U.S. Federal Court in Monterey (on Polk at Hartwell).
| Torre adobe full view.
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Don Jose Amesti house (c1850) (on Polk near Hartwell).
| Casa Amesti with sculpted trees.
| Don Juan Bautista Alvarado house, Mexican Governor of California (1836-42) (at Dutra & Jefferson Sts.).
| Casa Dona Maria Ignacia Sanchez (pre 1847) (on Alvarado St.).
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