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Title: Rancho Aguaje de la Centinela adobe
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1936
Publication Information: Federal Writers' Project
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Known as the "Centinela Adobe", this ranch house is considered one of the best preserved smaller adobes in Los Angeles County. Built in 1834 by Don Ignacio Machado, it was the headquarters of Rancho Aguaje de la Centinela. The Centinela Adobe is considered the birthplace of Inglewood, the modern city which was formed upon the land grant. Today the Historical Society of the Centinela Valley, in cooperation with the Inglewood Recreation and Community Services Department, maintains and exhibits the Centinela Adobe Complex at 7643 Midfield which includes the Adobe, 1887 Daniel Freeman Land Office and the Centinela Valley Heritage and Research Center.
Exterior of the adobe which is considered one of the best preserved smaller adobes in Los Angeles County.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00019907
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 42 4x5
CARL0000026467
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/1713
Subject: Centinela Adobe (Inglewood, Calif.)
Adobe houses--California--Inglewood
Dwellings--California--Inglewood
Architecture, Domestic--California--Inglewood--Spanish influences
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs
Rancho Aguaje de la Centinela (Calif.)
Inglewood (Calif.)
Machado, Ignacio

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