1635 W. Beach Dr., Watsonville, California. County/parish: Santa Cruz.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places July 28, 2004. NRIS 04000734.
1 contributing building.
Redman Hirahara Farmstead is a complex including a historic house designed by William Weeks (1897) and a vernacular barn in the Pajaro Valley, south of Watsonville, California. A Japanese American owned farm which was maintained by local citizens and watched over by family friend, attorney John McCarthy, during the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II and was returned to the Hirahara family after the war, it is on the National Register of Historic Places.The barn included a living unit prior to the war and was expanded postwar to house other returning Japanese families.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123861889