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When its renovation is complete, the Castro Adobe will be the only two-story adobe in the state where you can actually go to the second floor and check it out. This 160-year-old building should have fallen down in the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake, but luck followed by hard work and a vigorous restoration effort by Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks has kept it in one piece. Innovation has helped too; pictured is a steel girder that encircles the adobe to bolster its structural integrity. Join interpreter Joseph Carr Ritchie on a tour of our next State Historic Park in South County.
Read Ten Reasons to Love the Castro Adobe
Castro Adobe State Historic Park, 184 Old Adobe Rd (off Larkin Valley Rd); 11am-3pm; free, but donations gratefully accepted.
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