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ABOUT JOHN STEINBECK • STEINBECK & SALINAS •
WALKING TOUR - ARCHER STREET






An interesting interpretation of the late Colonial Revival style for an apartment complex. The decorative vocabulary of the style is employed asymmetrically to convey a sense of interior function. This type of building in the Steinbeck historic district is indicative of the continued role of the Archer/Cassidy block as a working class housing area adjacent to a fashionable Central Avenue residential street.

This Queen Anne and salt box combination may be indicative of the economic development as well as changes in architectural fashion that characterized Salinas in the 1880's and 1890's.

A early Salinas rooming or boarding house that has been rehabilitated for residential use. Its proximity to the Southern Pacific railroad suggests that industry was responsible in part for the initial buildup of this part of Salinas.

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