Editing Salinas, California (section)

===Points of interest===
====John Steinbeck House====
{{Main|John Steinbeck House (Salinas, California)}}
The John Steinbeck House was the birthplace and childhood home of author [[John Steinbeck]], and is now home to a restaurant. The house was built in 1897 and is a [[Queen Anne style architecture in the United States|Queen Anne style]] Victorian.<ref name="SHIVANI">{{Cite news|url=https://www.seattletimes.com/life/travel/salinas-valley-lush-fields-good-wine-and-steinbeck/|title=California's Salinas Valley: Lush fields, good wine, and Steinbeck|first=Shivani|last=Vora|date=April 6, 2017|work=The Seattle Times|access-date=November 4, 2017|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107100251/https://www.seattletimes.com/life/travel/salinas-valley-lush-fields-good-wine-and-steinbeck/|archive-date=November 7, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>

==== Boronda Adobe History Center{{Anchor|Boronda Adobe History Center}} ====
Just outside the official city limits, the restored adobe dwelling constructed in 1844 by José Eusebio Boronda, rests on one of the original Mexican land grants. The Boronda Adobe is a California Historical Landmark and listed in the National Register of Historic Places and holds a museum of early Salinas and California history. Other historic buildings are located here, including the Lagunita School house [[John Steinbeck]] wrote about in ''the Red Pony''. The site also holds the official archive of Monterey County, open to researchers by appointment.

====Santa Lucia Highlands American Viticultural Area====
[[Santa Lucia Highlands AVA]] is nearby so the area is becoming a destination for wine tasting.<ref name="SHIVANI"/>