Merle Curtice, Pena Adobe reconstruction Engineer with coffin handles from the Pena burial grounds on Steinmentz Hill..
Pena graves-New grave site on hill top east of Pena Adobe. It contains the bones excavated from the Pena private butial grounds on Steinmetz Hill. The hill was changed for the new overpass on Interstate 80..
Pena Adobe during restoration by Engineer Merle Curtice in 1963. Sun baked bricks to the left are identical with those made 120 years ago on the same spot..
Taken at Pena Adobe, 24 April, 1966. L to R - Narcissa Pena; Juanita (Mrs. Larry Hewitt); Andrea (Mrs. Jose Martinez); Jesus Pena (father with his daughters); Clara (Mrs. [...]
Maria Elena Rivera, great-great-grandaughter of Juan Felipe Pena doing a flamenco dance step at the 1842 adobe casa of her ancestors in 1970 after the restoration of the building..
South view of Hastings Adobe from the rear. Built 1846 by Lansford W. Hastings. Purchased by L. [...]