Casa de Aguirre Museum - San Diego, CA
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N 32° 45.202 W 117° 11.755
11S E 481647 N 3623962
Casa de Aguirre is located in San Diego's Old Town Historic State Park.
Waymark Code: WM10EK7
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 04/24/2019
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Casa de Aguirre is a reconstruction of a house built in 1853 by Don Jose Antonio Aguirre. Aguirre married two of his neighbor Don Jose Antonio de Estudillo's daughters. He married Francisca, and after her death married her sister Maria del Rosario.
After the death of Don Jose, the Aguirre family donated the home and land to the Catholic Church. Father Antonio Ubach used the home first as a rectory and then as Saint Anthony’s Industrial School for Indians. After years of disrepair, the original structure was torn down in 1914. In 2002, Historic Tours of America reconstructed the building as you see it today; it includes a free museum with artifacts from an on-site archeological dig.
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