Tour HistoricDowntown Cambria

12. The tiny blue house at 2261 Center Street was built in the 1890's and was home to Louis Maggetti, the town cobbler, who added the second story in 1900 to make room for his six children.

13. Referred to as the "Red House", the structure at 2264 Center Street sits on what was once Cambria's Chinese Community Center. Comprised of three separate buildings, the Red House was joined together around 1920 by Will Warren. The square front portion was the B.F. Franklin building, used as Cambria's first high school around 1890. The portion that extends on the right was a Joss House, built in 1899, and is considered to be the oldest remaining Chinese temple in Southern California. A building, believed to have been a laundry, is joined to the back.

14. The old house sitting on the corner of Burton and Center Streets was built in 1882 by Samuel Guthrie, a merchant. In 1914 the house sold to Eugenio Bianchini, a Swiss immigrant who came to this country in 1878 in search of opportunity - and found it. After farming, mining, dairying, and running a butcher, he retired to this home. The property has been unoccupied since 1970- due to legal problems and disagreement among the Bianchini heirs.

15. The board and batten redwood building, probably built after the turn of the century, was once Carroll's Blacksmith Shop. This false-fronted building is an excellent example of what many commercial establishments looked like in the old west.

Click Here to Continue the Tour!