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Adobe Chapel of The Immaculate Conception

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Adobe Chapel
Adobe Chapel

Chapel of the Immaculate Conception in San Diego, California in San Diego County, is a California Historical Landmark No. 49 listed on March 6, 1935. The Chapel of the Immaculate Conception was built in 1850 as the adobe house of John Brown. The house was converted to a Church building by Don José Aguirre in 1858. From 1866 to 1907 missionary Father Antonio D. Ubach was parish priest at Chapel of the Immaculate Conception. The Works Progress Administration rebuilt the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception in 1937. The Chapel of the Immaculate Conception is located at 3950 Conde Street in Old Town, San DiegoA Historical Plaque placed was placed at Chapel of the Immaculate Conception by the State Department of Parks and Recreation working with City of San Diego; San Diego County Historical Days Assaction, and Squibob Chapter of the E Clampus Vitus on September 24, 1988.

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Adobe Chapel of The Immaculate Conception
Conde Street, San Diego Old Town

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N 32.7516 ° E -117.1944 °
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Conde Street 3971
92110 San Diego, Old Town
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Mason Street School Museum
Mason Street School Museum

Mason Street Schoolhouse is a historical building in San Diego, California built in 1865. The Mason Street School District No. 1 is a California Historical Landmark No. 538, listed on September 14, 1955. The Mason Street School is the First Publicly owned School in San Diego. The school was used from 1865 to 1872. The Schoolhouse was moved once. For sometime in the 1940s to 1952 the Schoolhouse was a tamale restaurant, which operated out of the building until 1952. In 1952 San Diego County Historical Days Association acquired the Schoolhouse. The State of California acquired the Schoolhouse in 2013. The school building is now the Mason Street School Museum in Old Town San Diego at 3966 Mason Street. The school was restored in 1955.The Schoolhouse is 4-feet by 30-feet, 720 square feet with a 10-foot ceiling. The first teacher was Mary Chase Walker (1828–1899) born in Massachusetts. Walker graduated in 1861 from State Normal School in Framingham, Massachusetts and had a job teaching in Massachusetts. At the end of the American Civil War in 1865 Walker came to San Francisco, not finding a job there she travelling to San Diego. She took the teaching job for $65 a month (about $1,224.00 a month in today's dollars). Walker had 35 students of ages 4 to 17 in the single One room schoolhouse. Walker had the job for 11 months, when Walker married the school superintendent Ephraim Morse. A historical marker was place as the site by the San Diego County Board of Supervisors and The Historical Markers Committee in 1955.