Juan de Anza House

Infobox_nrhp | name =Juan de Anza House
nrhp_type =nhl


caption = Juan de Anza House
location=Franklin and 3rd Streets, San Juan Bautista, California
lat_degrees = 36
lat_minutes = 50
lat_seconds = 36.21
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 121
long_minutes = 32
long_seconds = 2.93
long_direction = W
locmapin = California
area = .25 acre
built =circa 1830
architect= Juan de Anza
architecture= Other
designated= April 15, 1970cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=899&ResourceType=Building
title=Juan de Anza House |accessdate=2007-10-22|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service]
added = April 15, 1970cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
governing_body = Private
refnum=70000140

Juan de Anza House, also known as Anza House, is small one-story California adobe in San Juan Bautista, California, USA. It was a simple pole and mud brick building that was typical for the Mexican era in California, including in the 1820-1840 time period in which it was built. Then, further, it was "Americanized" and enlarged in the 1850s, also typical of how traditional Mexican houses were adapted by newer settlers from the eastern United States.

As an architectural type example, it was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1970.citation|title=PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Text/70000140.pdf National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Anza House] |174 KB|date=November 22, 1975 |author=James Dillon |publisher=National Park Service and PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Photos/70000140.pdf Accompanying 2 photos, exterior, from 1975.] |558 KB]

It is located at the corner of Franklin and 3rd Streets in San Juan Bautista.

The National Register of Historic Places' information system lists a Juan de Anza as architect or builder of the house. However, based on no connection being given in the National Park Service documents about the site, the building appears to have no association with California explorer Juan Bautista de Anza Bezerra Nieto, who lived from 1736-1788, and who is also known as Juan de Anza. A City of San Juan Bautista guide to local points of interest describes the house as "Spanish style, one of four adobes still standing in the commercial area, all built after the Mission lands were secularized. Francisco Bravo, who built it, operated a cantina here during the 1850's."cite web|url=http://www.san-juan-bautista.ca.us/visitingPointsInterest2.htm
title=San Juan Bautista Historic Walking Tour |accessdate=2008-02-13|work= |publisher=City of San Juan Bautista]

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