History
Adobe was a common material used to construct buildings in California from the Spanish mission period through the 1930s. A sun-dried brick made from soil or clay, adobe was used for a structure built to resemble a mid-1800s adobe dwelling in Kern County. The adobe bricks used to construct this building were salvaged from a 1930s Bakersfield residence. The adobe house near Fairfax Road and Brundage Lane had belonged to William and Flora Deuel Combs. In 1977, Chicanos Unidos Para El Progreso constructed this building on the museum grounds, and in 1979, Dr. Lewis L. Sandidge and Dr. Dyrel Faulstick donated the adobe bricks used to reconstruct it.
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Bakersfield, California · United States
