Pacific House Museum

The Pacific House Museum features a broad, two-story wooden veranda that wraps around its interior courtyard. Built in eighteen forty-seven by the American diplomat Thomas Larkin, the structure served as a government office and warehouse during the transition from Mexican to American rule. After the local revolt in eighteen forty-six, officers used these rooms to store supplies and hold social gatherings. Soldiers once stabled their horses in the courtyard, while the upper floor functioned as the center of regional law and politics.