De La Guerra Adobe
11-19 East De la Guerra Street

De La Guerra Adobe
11-19 East De la Guerra Street

Constructed between 1818 and 1828 for the fifth comandante of the Santa Barbara Presidio, José de la Guerra, this "adobe mansion" was a center of the early community's political and social life. The house remained in the family for over one hundred years. In 1922 it was incorporated into Bernhard Hoffmann's "El Paseo" complex. Casa de la Guerra, one of Santa Barbara's most prominent surviving adobes, was restored and opened as a museum in 1989 by the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation.

Fridolin Haass

Fridolin Haass Watercolors of Santa Barbara Adobes
Presidio Research Center, Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation
Santa Barbara, CA

SBTHP

Originally painted in 1953
Shared on OMEKA November 6, 2012

Gift of Pearl Chase (1888-1979), a prominent Santa Barbara citizen, tireless community activist and avid historic preservationist.

Copyright has not been assigned to the Presidio Research Center. All requests for permission to publish must be submitted to the Presidio Research Center, Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation. For contact information visit: http://www.sbthp.org/research.htm. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Presidio Research Center as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher. Copyright restrictions also apply to digital facsimiles of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.

The Fridolin Haass Watercolors of Santa Barbara Adobes series is part of a larger donation by Pearl Chase, which also includes The Pearl Chase Papers and the Pearl Chase Lantern Slide collection. To access these collections visit: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8736rfx/ and http://omeka.sbthp.org/collections/show/11

Original: watercolor paints on paper
Digital: JPEG

Watercolor

16 x 12 inches