Exterior view of a house that formerly belonged to Robert Louis Stevenson in Monterey, [s.d.] 

Exterior view of the first custom house in California, an adobe structure in Monterey, ca.1890 

Exterior view of California's first custom house, Monterey, ca.1887-1890 

Exterior view of the Hotel Washington showing the court, Monterey, ca.1890 

Exterior view of Colton Hall, the old State House where the first California Legislature was held in 1850, Monterey, ca.1890 

First Pacific coast theater, Monterey, California, ca.1900 

Exterior view of the Washington Hotel at Monterey, ca.1890 

Exterior view of the first theater building in California, an adobe structure in Monterey, ca.1900 

Exterior view of the first State Capitol building in Monterey, 1898 

Statues at San Francisco's Cliff House Restaurant, ca.1890 

Exterior view of the old Whaling Station at Monterey, the first brick building in California, ca.1900 

Mexican adobe home in Monterey, 1887 

Exterior view of Adobe Jimeno and the ruins of the Convent of Santa Catalina in Monterey, ca.1900 

Lithograph from Norton's 1913 book "Story of California" depicting Monterey from the bay, [s.d.] 

Exterior view of the ranch house of Santa Rita Ranch, showing part of an old adobe incorporated into a newer home in Monterey County, 1938 

Old Spanish Convent of Santa Catalina on Main Street, later the site of the San Carlos Hotel, Monterey, ca.1898 

Drawing of Monterey published in the book "United States Illustrated, Volume 1", ca.1860 

Old Custom house, Monterey, ca.1898 

Monterey and Point Pinos from Hotel Del Monterey, ca.1900 

Pacific Ocean at Monterey, ca.1900