Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1893 — OLDEST HOUSE IN AMERICA. THE OLDEST HOUSE IN AMERICA. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

OLDEST HOUSE IN AMERICA.

THE OLDEST HOUSE IN AMERICA.

It la llullt of Adobe and Standi hi Santa Fe, Now Mexico. Down in old Santa Fe, the capital* of New Mexico, the oldest seat of civil and religious government on American soil, there exist many re*

mains of buildings erected by the old Spanish conquerors of the country. One of these, the Adobe Palace, has been used as the “executive” mansion since the first Governor and Captain General, Juan de Otermin, occupied it in 1680; while the cathedral, built in 1761, is now rapidly crumbling away, and will soon be replaced by a modern stone building. Another interesting ecclesiastical gdifice is the Church of San Miguel, erected in the sixteenth century, but destroyed during the Pueblo revolution of 1680, and rebuilt in 1710. Close to this structure stands a house generally recognized as the “oldest in the United States.” It was built before the Spanish conquest, and it is traditionally reported that Coronado lodged in it in 1540.