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La Casa de Estudillo is a large adobe-block townhouse built in 1829 by José Antonio Estudillo. It included servants' quarter, work and storage rooms, living and dining rooms, and a Roman Catholic chapel. In 1884, Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona was published, linking the casa with the marriage place of Ramona, the novel's Indian heroine. In 1906, investor John D. Spreckels bought it. In 1910, Hazel Wood Waterman restored it, and afterwards it was promoted as “Ramona's Marriage Place.” In 1932, it was listed as a California Historical Landmark. In 1969, California Parks restored it. In 1970, it was listed as a National Historical Landmark.
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