The Caputo House
For unknown reasons, this house had a long line of different owners before it was bought in 1931 by Assunta and Rocco Caputo, whose family lived there nearly 70 years. The origins of the house are unclear. The owners of the property at the time the house would have been designed and built by Wolfe were San Franciscans Frederick and Rosalie Diepen, who bought 20 acres from the Enright family who had lived on Cypress Avenue for decades. Cypress Avenue, behind Sarah Winchester's property, was a center for prune and apricot orchards. Among the Diepens' neighbors were progressive orchardists Frank and Lester Allen. Lester's 1895 Victorian house still stands.
The house and the 20 acres it was on went to one owner after another and was reputedly operated as a speakeasy for a period during Prohibition. By the time the Caputos bought it, it had already gone into foreclosure at least once. The Caputos, their children, and grandchildren lived in the house until the 1990s.
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