Historic China House in Rancho Cucamonga to be demolished
RANCHO CUCAMONGA--Plans to demolish the historic China House in
Rancho Cucamonga are moving forward.  A monument on the corner
of the site, commemorating the Chinese laborers who had once
lived in the house, will be placed near the present location of
the house on San Bernardino Road. Bricks salvaged from the
structure will be used for the monument.  The city has red-
tagged the building as unsafe, and the Cucamonga Valley Water
District, which owns the structure, has 60 days to re-mediate
the condition. With no funds to restore or retrofit the
structure, plans are to demolish the building. The two-story red
clay China House, on the southwest corner of Klusman and San
Bernardino Road, is the last remnant of the area's former
Chinatown.  In the 1880s, Chinese laborers who had helped build
the transcontinental railroad settled in an area of Rancho
Cucamonga near the present-day intersection of San Bernardino
Road and Archibald Avenue where they found agr