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Description: Historic Building Survey plaque: "80 Sterling Hardware Building, 1887. Numerous and complicated title transfers are recorded since 1867 when Alonzo Horton first sold this lot for $150. In 1889, half the building was leased to Ramona Wolf whose name was probably used by Helen Hunt Jackson for the novel Ramona, the somewhat fictional account of the eviction of the Temecula Indians. The Standard Theatre later operated with vaudeville variety shows. In 1904, Moritz Trepte, a German immigrant and carpenter, purchased the north half for $10. Trepte became 'one of the Pacific Southwest's leading contractors.' The Sterling Company, seller of second-hand goods, had the entire building until the 1970s."
Title: Sterling Hardware 1887
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