Numerous and complicated title transfers are
recorded since 1867 when Alonzo Horton first sold this lot for $150. In 1889, half the building
was leased to Ramona Wolf, whose name was probably used by Helen Hunt
Jackson for the novel Ramona, the somewhat fictional account of the
eviction of the Temecula Indians. The Standard
Theatre later operated here with vaudeville variety shows. In 1904, Moritz Trepte, a
German immigrant and carpenter, purchased the north half for $10. Trepte became "one
of the Pacific Southwest's leading contractors". The Sterling Company, seller of
second-hand goods, had the entire building until the 1970's.
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