The Stevenson House - Monterey, CA
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N 36° 35.846 W 121° 53.606
10S E 598976 N 4050785
Located at 530 Houston St, Monterey, CA 93940
Waymark Code: WMRM8E
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 07/07/2016
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A sign, located in front of the Stevenson House reads:
"THE STEVENSON HOUSE
The oldest parts of this adobe house date from 1840. It was built by Rafael
Gonzalez, an administrator of the Custom House. Swiss immigrant Juan Girardin
and his wife Manuela Perez de Girardin expanded the building and rented rooms
to sailors, tradesmen and artists.
Robert Louis Stevenson visited Monterey for three and a half months in the fall of 1879.
He came to win the hand of Mrs. Fanny Osbourne.
During part of his stay, it is believed he occupied a second-floor room of
this house, which was then called the French Hotel. Whle in Monterey he wrote an essay,
The Old Pacific Capital, and gathered ideas for later works including Treasure Island.
The house was donated to the State in 1941 by Mrs. Celia Tobin Clark and Mrs. Edith Van Antwerp as a memorial to Robert Louis Stevenson.
Today the building holds one of the world's most important collections of Stevenson's personal belongings."
The sign was posted by the Monterey State Historic Park.
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