Baca Home

Round Valley was not settled by Mormon pioneers alone. In 1907 Gregorio Baca bought this thick-walled adobe for his bride, Chona Ortega, joining two prominent Hispano families whose herds of cattle and sheep ranged across Concho, St. Johns, and the valley. The Bacas and Ortegas were landed ranchers in a region often told as an Anglo and Mormon story, and their sixteen-inch adobe walls carry an older Southwestern building tradition brought north from New Mexico. The house anchors the Hispanic thread that runs through Springerville's history.

What the plaque says

Baca Home. , Gregorio Baca bought this house from G. Becker in 1907 for his bride, Chona Ortega. It's walls are 16" thick adobe. The wealthy Bacas and Ortegas ran large herds of cattle and sheep on vast tracts of land in Concho, St. Johns and The R.V. area.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Casa Malpais — 0.2 mi
  The Mogollon great house on the lava, and the catacombs sealed back shut
• Mount Baldy — 22 mi
  Dzil Ligai Si'an, the sacred White Mountain, and the summit you stop short of

More markers nearby

• El Rio Theatre — steps away
• Becker's Transcontinental Garage — steps away
• Madonna of the Trail — steps away
• Arizona Cooperative Mercantile Institution — steps away