__NOTOC__ The Los Rios Historic District is an

historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal protection from c ...

and neighborhood in the city of

San Juan Capistrano San Juan Capistrano (Spanish for "St. John of Capistrano") is a city in Orange County, California, located along the Orange Coast. The population was 34,593 at the 2010 census. San Juan Capistrano was founded by the Spanish in 1776, when St. ...

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. With buildings dating to 1794, it is the oldest continually occupied neighborhood in the state.Hall, Len (March 10, 1997
"Los Rios Opens for Business, but Is the Price Too High?"
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''Bidwell, Carol (1997
"Finding California's Oldest Neighborhood: San Juan Capistrano Community Reflects Mission Days, Spanish Ways"
''Daily News'' The nearby

Mission San Juan Capistrano Mission San Juan Capistrano ( es, Misión San Juan Capistrano) is a Spanish mission in San Juan Capistrano, Orange County, California. Founded November 1, 1776 in colonial ''Las Californias'' by Spanish Catholic missionaries of the Franciscan O ...

was the first of the 21

California Missions The Spanish missions in California ( es, Misiones españolas en California) comprise a series of 21 religious outposts or missions established between 1769 and 1833 in what is now the U.S. state of California. Founded by Catholic priests of ...

to have Indians, soldiers and workers live outside the mission grounds. Three adobes remains in the Los Rios neighborhood itself, although there are a number of others close by which were part of what was once a larger neighborhood. The neighborhood originally had 40

adobe Adobe ( ; ) is a building material made from earth and organic materials. is Spanish for ''mudbrick''. In some English-speaking regions of Spanish heritage, such as the Southwestern United States, the term is used to refer to any kind of e ...

structures, but most were replaced in the 19th century by wooden

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structures.Lechowitsky, Irene (November 4, 2007
NEIGHBORLY ADVICE: LOS RIOS HISTORIC DISTRICT - Swallows flock, and families nest
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'' Thirty-one of the buildings on Los Rios Street and the surrounding area are listed on the

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as of 1983. and

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{{National Register of Historic Places, state=collapsed San Juan Capistrano, California National Register of Historic Places in Orange County, California Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in California

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