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Miss Ernestine E. Edmunds, granddaughter of Manuel Yturri Castillo,
willed this two-third acre tract to the Society, which took
possession of the property in December, 1961. Yturri Castillo had
received the land grant, originally part of Mission Concepcion
lands, in 1824 from the Mexican Government. Built between
1840 and 1860, the house
is one of the few adobe-block houses remaining in San Antonio. North
rooms of the structure span a lateral from the Pajalache acequia, a
notable and unusual feature.
Long range restoration of the property
began in June, 1964 under the direction of Ernst Schuchard,
well-known engineer and former executive of Pioneer Flour Mills and
the late Marvin Eickenroht, A.I.A., who was the project architect.
The house was recorded in the 1969 Historic American Buildings
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