Rancho Guajome Adobe
{{short description|Historic house in California, United States}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}}
{{Infobox NRHP
| name = Rancho Guajome Adobe
| nrhp_type = nhl
| image = Guajome Ranch House 2012-09-21 13-28-14.jpg
| location = Vista, Southern California
| coordinates = {{Coord|33|13|59.59|N|117|15|14.42|W|display=title,inline}}
| locmapin = USA California San Diego County#USA California#USA
| area = {{convert|158|acre|ha}} (landmarked area)
| built = 1852–1853
| architect =
| architecture = Spanish—Mexican Colonial adobe
| added = April 15, 1970{{NRISref|2007a}}
| refnum = 70000145
}}
Rancho Guajome Adobe is a historic 19th-century hacienda (and now a historic house museum) in Rancho Guajome Adobe County Park, on North Santa Fe Avenue in Vista in San Diego County, California. Built in 1852–53, it is a well-preserved but late example of Spanish-Mexican colonial architecture, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1970. It is also a California Historical Landmark and on the National Register of Historic Places.
Description
Rancho Guajome Adobe is located in the northwestern part of Vista, on the south side of North Santa Fe Avenue. It is located just east of Guajome County Park, a larger park on the north side of the road. The adobe complex includes the main house, around which are arrayed a number of outbuildings. The main house is a large, rambling, 20-room, Spanish Colonial-style hacienda with two courtyards, and an arcaded veranda. The arches on the veranda are not original to the house, however; they were added in the 1920s during the height of Mission and Spanish Colonial Revival architecture.{{cite news | url=https://sandiegohistory.org/journal/1995/october/archlegacy/ | title=Rancho Guajome an Architectural Legacy Preserved - San Diego History Center | San Diego, CA | Our City, Our Story | newspaper=San Diego History Center | San Diego, Ca | Our City, Our Story }} The outbuildings include stables, a blacksmith shop, chapel, and carriage house.{{Cite journal|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Guajome Ranchhouse|url={{NHLS url|id=70000145}} |format=pdf|date=January 23, 1979 |author=Patricia Heintzelman and Charles Snell |publisher=National Park Service}} and {{NHLS url|id=70000145|title=Accompanying 8 photos, exterior, from 1975 and undated.|photos=y}} {{small|(2.37 MB)}}
History
The adobe was built in 1852 and served as the headquarters of Rancho Guajome, a Mexican land grant. Abel Stearns had given the rancho to Ysidora Bandini (sister of his wife Arcadia Bandini), as a wedding gift when she married Lieutenant Cave Johnson Couts in 1851. It was built with the profits from the cattle boom of the 1850s, when many California ranchos supplied the Gold Rush miners and associated new American immigrants with meat and leather.[http://www.historyandculture.com/guajome/index.html Historyandculture.com: Guajome adobe] . accessed 9.6.2012
Couts was appointed sub-agent for the native Luiseño people (San Luis Rey Mission Indians) in 1853. He used their labor to improve his properties in the area, including this one and nearby Rancho Buena Vista and Rancho Vallecitos de San Marcos.[http://www.newsreview.com/chico/content?oid=602737 Slavery in the Golden State]Michael Magliari, 2004, Free Soil, Unfree Labor: Cave Johnson Couts and the Binding of Indian Workers in California, 1850-1867; August 2004; Pacific Historical Review
File:Rancho Guajome 1-1.jpg landscape and adobes (1936).]]
The rancho remained owned by Couts descendants until 1973.{{cite web | url=https://sandiegohistory.org/journal/1974/january/guajome/ | title=RANCHO GUAJOME a California Legacy Preserved }} Beginning in the 1970s, the county undertook a major rehabilitation of the property, which was completed in 1996. It is now the centerpiece of a county park {{convert|112|acre|ha}} in size. Guided and self-guided tours are available, and the park facilities are available for special events.
See also
References
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External links
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- [http://www.sdparks.org/content/sdparks/en/park-pages/RanchoGuajomeAdobe.html San Diego Parks - Rancho Guajome Adobe]
- {{HABS |survey=CA-43 |id=ca0616 |title=Casa de Rancho Guajome, San Luis Rey, San Diego County, CA |photos=14 |dwgs=12 |data=2 |supp=yes}}
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Category:Houses completed in 1853
Category:Houses in San Diego County, California
Category:Historic house museums in California
Category:Museums in San Diego County, California
Category:Parks in San Diego County, California
Category:California Historical Landmarks
Category:National Historic Landmarks in California
Category:Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in California
Category:National Register of Historic Places in San Diego County, California