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Built in circa 1858, there is no recorded history of this building. It is a one-story wood framed commercial building in a western false front style. The exterior is clad with horizontal clapboard wood siding, and the upper facade is board plank. There are two  entrances with narrow wood and glass French style double doors, both with transom windows and pediments above.

When pioneer Isaac L. Mylar recounts San Juan Bautista in 1856, he identifies this as being a long narrow adobe. It was likely replaced with the current wood frame building a few years later. The false front was added some time between the 1870s-80s. The 1908 Sanborn map shows this to have been a dwelling at that time. By 1926, this was a commercial building. Although the front door openings are original, the doors themselves appear to be circa 1920s replacements.

Several businesses have been in the building including antiques and collectibles, souvenir stores and clothing shops. Today Top’s Rock Shop is housed in the building, selling a variety of jewelry and minerals, semi-precious gems, crystals, fossils and beads.

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