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Built by the lawyer, Lansford W. Hastings, as the first structure in what he hoped would be an eventual Mormon colony,'Montezuma City,'in Mexican Alta California; Hasting's original house measured 27 by 27 feet, divided into four rooms; the exterior walls measured 22-inches thick, while interior partitions measured 11 inches; Hastings left the house in 1849; in 1853, a rancher, Lindsay Powell Marshall, recently arrived in California from Missouri, claimed the house and began occupying it; his descendants occupied the property until around 1900, when it was sold to the Stratton family; the Strattons then sold the property to the Pacific Gas and Electric Company in 1964, which was then assembling a real estate parcel on which to build a nuclear power plant; the plant was never realized; the house was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

The Stratton family encased the adobe structure within a wood frame after 1900, and appended a living room to the adobe; they used the adobe portion as bedrooms and a kitchen; the house had fallen into disrepair in 2001.

PCAD id: 3564