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La Casa de Ricardo Vejar. "A splendid example of the Southern
California adobe mansión, the two-story adobe ranch house of
the Mexican era."
gated rectangle, divided into two rooms on each floor. At
the rear an outside stairway is sheltered under the wide two-
story corredor which surrounds the house on three sides. A
circle of pepper trees outlines the crown of the knoll behind
the house, where a service ell of later wooden construction
this ell was of adobe,
has been added. It is said that formerly
and in support of this statement it may be noted that the
original stone foundation break
extends without a perceptible
from the adobe structure back under the frame addition.
This foundation is noteworthy, constructed of slabs
being
of the natural yellow rock available in the vicinity. Built on
the hillside, the front of the adobe is supported upon a high
sturdy platform of this material, which contributes both to
of
the impression height and dignity that the house conveys,
and to the interest and effectiveness of its architectural detail.
Home-made doors, bearing the marks of careful planing
decorative wooden railing around the
by hand, a charmingly
corredor, well-finished
door and window headers, show that
this house was built by a conscientious and skillful crafts-
man who possessed also fine taste.