Sherman Quarters, also known as Sherman Rose House is a historic

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stone building located at 510 Calle Principal in

Monterey, California Monterey (; es, Monterrey; Ohlone: ) is a city located in Monterey County on the southern edge of Monterey Bay on the U.S. state of California's Central Coast. Founded on June 3, 1770, it functioned as the capital of Alta California under bo ...

. It was built by

Thomas O. Larkin Thomas Oliver Larkin (September 16, 1802 – October 27, 1858), known in Spanish as Don Tomás Larkin, was an American diplomat and businessman. Larkin served as the only U.S. consul to Alta California during the Mexican era and was covertly inv ...

in 1834. It was the quarters for Lieutenant

William Tecumseh Sherman William Tecumseh Sherman ( ; February 8, 1820February 14, 1891) was an American soldier, businessman, educator, and author. He served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861–1865), achieving recognition for his com ...

in 1847. This building played a role in the U.S. military occupation of California after its seizure from Mexico during the

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History

The Sherman Quarters was built in 1834 by diplomat and businessman

. Larkin made his home available as a service to U.S. troops during the U.S. occupation of California. This small

building served as headquarters for Lieutenant

and military secretary of state Henry W. Halleck from 1847 to 1849 while they served under Colonel Richard Barnes Mason, military governor of California before it became a

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. Sherman later became famous as a Union general during the

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. The spiked cannon in front of the house was used as a hitching post. A legend about the house said that Sherman fell in love with Señorita Maria Ygnacia Bonifacio, who lived in the house before his assignment to Monterey in 1847. He gave Maria a rose-tree or "Sherman Rose," with the promise that he would return. The building was originally part of a large piece of property at Calle Principal between Jefferson and Madison Streets, in

. It shares a parcel of land with the Larkin House. In Sherman's memoirs, he talks about the house as ''the adobe back of Larkin's.'' The entrance is located in the gardens of the Larkin House. In the 1920s, Larkin's granddaughter, Alice, used it as a tea room. The one-story building is cladded with fieldstone with painted earthen plaster that is now peeling showing the adobe brick beneath. It has an entrance porch, wood steps, wood rail and door. Windows are single, double hung, wood, multipane with shutters. The roof is a front gable, shake roof with open eaves. It has an exterior brick chimney. The small one-room adobe is between the House of the Four Winds and shares a garden with the Larkin House, built in 1834 by Thomas O. Larkin. The Larkin garden has redwoods, palm, and fig trees. The artist Percy Gray, a California Impressionist, and his wife Leone Phelps, purchased the house in 1923 and renovated it. In 1939, he sold the adobe and moved to San Francisco. The watercolor, ''Sherman's Quarters,'' is an example of his work that he did on the Sherman Quarters.

Historic preservation

The Sherman Quarters was designated as a significant building in the city's ''Monterey Downtown Area Context Statement and Survey,'' and was recorded by the

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, with the Department of Parks and Recreation on June 2011. The building is closed but can be seen when visiting the Larkin House garden. A historical marker was placed on the wall of the building at 510 Calle Principal. The inscription reads:

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