El Cuartel
122 East Canon Perdido Street

El Cuartel
122 East Canon Perdido Street

This remnant of the Presidio was built in 1788, making it the oldest building in Santa Barbara. For many decades, the family of Presidio soldier Jesus Valenzuela lived in the adobe. In 1941, a group of citizens purchased El Cuartel and it became Boy Scouts Headquarters. The Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation acquired the building in 1964 and donated it to the State of California, making El Cuartel the nucleus of the future El Presidio de Santa Bárbara State Historic Park.

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 1954
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 11.4 inches