kwan tai temple, mendocino ca
This tiny plot sits in the buccolic seaside town of Mendocino village. A "joss house," the temple of Kwan Tai built in 1854, is the oldest chinese Taoist temple left in the North Coast. It was the only safehouse for chinese lumber workers and cooks, a reminder of the once hostile Chinese Exclusion Act that permeated through much of the coast up till 1943.