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Constructed in 1834 by Thomas Oliver Larkin, the only United States Consul in California under Mexican rule, this house was used as a private residence, the United States Consulate, and City Hall, and served as the headquarters of General Stephen W. Kearny and Colonel Richard B. Mason, United States military governors of California, in 1846-1847. Alice Larkin Toulmin donated it to the State of California in 1957.
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Monterey, California · United States
