New High Street

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Early adobe home located on the corner of New High and Ord streets in Sonora Town, it was built between 1850 and 1860. It shows a New England influence its Georgian door and window frames were brought from that section by ship. A man standing at the corner appears to be looking across the street at the photographer, and several people can be seen standing next to a horse-drawn carriage that is parked farther back, along the right side of the street. This dwelling was abandoned in 1936 and became a restaurant named El Adobe Cafe a year later. At some point after that, it changed owners and became the J.G. Medina grocery store. The part of the city called "Sonora Town" was an old adobe village north of the Plaza and Church of Our Lady, Queen of the Angels. It was Los Angeles' first Mexican quarters, or barrio. The area was named for the numerous miners and families who came from Sonora, Mexico, and may have still been around in the 1930s. Now it is Los Angeles' Chinatown District.