page_title: Old Customhouse (Monterey, California)
section_title: Landmark
hierarchical_section_title: Old Customhouse (Monterey, California) / Landmark
caption_attribution_description: English: Custom house This is a photo of a place or building that is listed on the California Historical Landmark listing in the United States. Its reference number is 1. This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 66000217
context_page_description: The Old Customhouse is a Spanish Colonial style adobe structure built around 1827 by the Mexican government in the Pueblo de Monterey, Alta California, in present-day Monterey County in the U.S. state of California. The former custom house is the state's first designated California Historical Landmark, marking the site where U.S. Commodore John Drake Sloat raised the American flag and declared California part of the United States in 1846.
context_section_description: The Monterey Customs House was a landmark that the Native Sons of the Golden West determined should not disappear if within their power to prevent it. The property belonged to the United States Government, but the Native Sons of the Golden West obtained a lease of the buildings and grounds and restored them in the early 1900s.  The lease was ultimately transferred to a State Commission appointed under a legislative act passed in 1901 which act also carried an appropriation for further restoration of the building.
  The Customhouse became the first California Historical Landmark on June 1, 1932, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1960. It is part of the larger Monterey State Historic Park, itself a National Historic Landmark District along with the nearby Larkin House.
caption: The Old Custom House in Monterey, California
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