Built 1852-1853 Designated NHL April 15, 1970 Area 64 ha Architectural style American Colonial | NRHP Reference # 70000145 Opened 1852 Phone +1 760-724-4082 Added to NRHP 15 April 1970 | |
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Rancho guajome adobe vista california
Rancho Guajome Adobe, listed in the National Register of Historic Places as Guajome Ranch House, is an 1850s adobe hacienda (house) in Vista, northern San Diego County, Southern California.
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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 is a large rambling twenty-room Spanish Colonial style hacienda with two courtyards, an arcaded veranda, and other structures including a chapel in a former small house. 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.
Couts was appointed sub-agent for the native Luiseño people (San Luis Rey Mission Indians) in 1853, and used their enslaved labor to improve his properties in the area, including this one and nearby Rancho Buena Vista and Rancho Vallecitos de San Marcos.
The structures were was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1970. It is also a California Historical Landmark and on the National Register of Historic Places.
Access
Rancho Guajome Adobe is now a Historic house museum within the protected landscape of a park. It is located within the northernmost limits of Vista, in northern San Diego County, California.
It is set within Guajome County Park, which also has "a rich riparian area, marshes, and spring-fed lakes; and offers picnicking, hiking, horseback riding, fishing, and camping."