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Ventura Historic Sites
Pick up a complimentary Historic Downtown Walking Tour Guide at the Ventura Visitors & Convention Bureau, 101 S. California Street, Downtown Ventura or make a selection from the dropdown to learn more about Ventura's historical sites:
Ventura, CA 93002
Phone: 805-654-7850
www.cityofventura.net
Doric columns, marble floors, a domed stained-glass ceiling, a sweeping main stairway, and the faces of 24 terra cotta friars are just a few of the sp...
Ventura, CA 93002
Tollfree: 800.701.7237
http://www.sbconservancy.org/landmarks.htm
The Mission of the San Buenaventura Conservancy is to work through advocacy and outreach to recognize preserve and revitalize the irreplaceable histor...
Ventura, CA 93001
Phone: (805) 643-4318
Fax: (805) 643-7831
http://www.sanbuenaventuramission.org/
Founded in 1782, Mission San Buenaventura, was the ninth of California's 21 missions and the last to be established by Father Junipero Serra. Destroye...
Ventura, CA 93001
Historic Landmarks: 46,50 & 62 #46 Selwyn Shaw House, 140 N. Ann Street The William Suyter house is one of three landmarks located in the Selwyn S...
Ventura, CA 93001
The church was built in 1890 and is the last of the original seven churches built in the City during that time. It is in the Gothic style with a high ...
Ventura, CA 93001
Phone: (805) 653-0721
http://www.venturatheater.net/
Built in 1928, it was the City's only luxurious movie theater during the movie palace era. The Ventura Theatre, the best venue between LA and San Fra...
Ventura, CA 93001
This building was originally constructed in the late 1920's as a bank for the Ventura Guarantee and Loan. Although it served as a home for many diff...
Ventura, CA 93003
"Two Trees" is the common way to refer to a pair of blue gum Eucalyptus trees up on the hills above Ventura. One tree is part of a grove of 13 tree...
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Mission San Buenaventura
More than 1,500 years ago, Ventura began as the Chumash Village Shisholop. It takes its modern name from Mission San Buenaventura, founded by Franciscan friars under the Spanish crown in 1782. After a brief period of Mexican rule, Ventura became a bustling frontier town following California statehood in 1850. The discovery of oil hastened the area's growth, and by 1925, the Ventura Avenue oil field was among the most productive in the nation. The Perry Mason novels by Erle Stanley Gardner, a young Ventura lawyer, gained worldwide popularity in the 1950s.
As you explore the downtown or tour the scenic back-country, you'll find much of the area's history still evident in its traditional buildings and landscape.
Don't miss these highlights.
101 S. California Street, Ventura, California USA 93001
Toll Free: 1-800-483-6214 | Local Number: 1-805-648-2075
tourism@ventura-usa.com
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