Talk:Castroville Historic District

"Colonial" architecture
'well-preserved colonial Alsatian architecture The page shows a few quite recent buildings from the late 1800s but certainly no colonial architecture why is this town considered historic?
 * Perhaps the word "colonial" makes you think of the seventeenth or eighteenth century in the context of the Atlantic coast, but this region (the Medina River valley) was only colonized by Europeans in the 1800s, and the sources repeatedly refer to the town as an "Alsatian colony" and the architecture as "colonial." As the article describes, industrialization passed Castroville by, and consequently it looks much as it did in the late 1800s today; one criterion for inclusion in the NRHP is that a property "embody the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction," and they only require that a property be at least fifty years old to be considered "historic." -Bryanrutherford0 (talk) 12:16, 2 May 2018 (UTC)