Gil Sanchez is an architect that has made restoration of adobes his specialty. He won awards for his work on the Peralta Adobe in San Jose and was excited to be awarded the restoration of the Mission Adobe in Santa Cruz by the State of California. He and a team of archeologists from Cabrillo College have been exploring the adobe structure in the walls of the 7 room building that is left and can see the influence of different times and cultures on the building. Once it closed as a mission in the 1800s it was bought by two families who shared the structure and made their own changes. Sanchez feels that working with adobe’s put him in the unique position of restoring something with cultural significance to him personally as the son of migrant farm workers.