Yee Hing Laundry adobe

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Photo of a white adobe located at Main and Carr streets (now 14th Place), between 14th St. and Pico. It shows an average-size adobe with a main door in the middle and two small windows on either side of it, with two more doors farther out the whitewash finish can be seen crumbling off one end of the house. This was said to have been General Freman's headquarters at one time, but when this photo was taken, it was a Chinese laundry - the "Yee Hing Laundry" sign is still visible along the front. Adobe structures are "natural buildings" made from a mixture of 50% sand, 35% clay and water, and mixed with 15% of a fibrous or organic material such as sticks, straw and even dung in some cases - which is useful in binding the brick together and allowing the brick to dry evenly. These buildings are extremely durable and account for the oldest structures on earth, some of which are still standing today.