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The Chinatown House is an historic building in
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. It is one of the last surviving examples of historic Chinese worker housing in the region. Built in 1919, the two-story brick building once housed 50 Chinese American laborers. It also served as a
general store A general merchant store (also known as general merchandise store, general dealer, village shop, or country store) is a rural or small-town store that carries a general line of merchandise. It carries a broad selection of merchandise, someti ...
for the community.


History

The Chinese American population of the region first blossomed in the 1880s. A fire destroyed much of the community in 1919. The Chinatown House was built shortly after the fire.


Structure

The Chinatown House was built of unreinforced brick masonry, with 10 small rooms downstairs and two long rooms upstairs.


Preservation

Chinatown House was registered as a California Historical Resource with the California Office of Historic Preservation on December 22, 1975. The building was designated a city landmark in 1985, and in 2013, The
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added the building to its list of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places. Chinatown House is registered with the California Points of Historical Interest as point SBR-077. The Cucamonga Valley Water District owns the house and had planned the house's demolition when local advocates began an effort to preserve the structure, led by a group named the Chinatown House Preservation Coalition.


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