page_title: Peirano Market
section_title: Nick Peirano Sr.
hierarchical_section_title: Peirano Market / Construction and early uses / Nick Peirano Sr.
caption_attribution_description: English: Peirano House, 107 S. Figueroa St., Ventura, California (Ventura Historic Landmark No. 33)
context_page_description: The Peirano Market, also known as Peirano's Grocery and Peirano Store, is a historic building in Ventura, California. Located across the street from the Mission San Buenaventura, the red brick structure was built in 1877 and has ornamental relief brickwork and a mansard, Spanish revival tile roof.
  The building housed a general merchandise store and later, a grocery store operated by the Peirano family for more than 100 years from the 1880s to the 1980s. The building was designated in 1978 as City of Ventura Historic Landmark No. 32. In 1991, archaeological remains of the San Buenaventura Mission Lavanderia were discovered beneath the building and were designated as Ventura Historic Landmark No. 85. The building is also a contributing property within the Mission San Buenaventura Historic District.
  The Peirano Market building was acquired in 1987 by the San Buenaventura Redevelopment Agency and was unoccupied for more than 10 years. From August 1998 until January 2016, the building housed Jonathan's at Peirano's and later Peirano's Restaurant and the Red Room. The building has been vacant since January 2016 but is scheduled to re-open in 2018 as Peirano's Market & Delicatessen.
context_section_description: In the early 1880s, Nicola "Nick Sr." Peirano (1862-1937), a nephew of Alex Gandolfo, immigrated from Genoa, Italy. Nick worked in Gandolfo's store, slept in a loft at the site, and took over the business in approximately 1888 when Gandolfo left Ventura. In its early years, the store sold everything from groceries to farm implements, wine, liquor, cigars, hardware, bailing wire, shotgun shells, and black powder.
  Nick Sr. was married in 1897 to Clara Raffetto, also an Italian immigrant.  They had six children, Elvira, Cecilia, Victor, Lester, Elvinia, and Nicholas (Nick Jr.) They raised their family in the Queen Anne style Peirano residence at 107 South Figueroa Street, built for Peirano in 1897 and located one block south of the store.
caption: The Nicola Peirano residence built in 1897
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