Governor Stoneman Adobe, Los Robles

George Stoneman commanded Union cavalry, was captured in Georgia and traded back for a Confederate general, and came west to farm four hundred acres he called Los Robles. Rutherford Hayes was entertained here in 1880. Elected governor in 1882, Stoneman had to surrender his army pension to take the office. In July 1885 the house burned uninsured, taking his war papers with it, and he left office poorer than he arrived. Nothing of the estate remains.

What the plaque says

This was the site of ‘Los Robles', the 400 acre estate of Governor George Stoneman. Here in 1880 President Rutherford B. Hayes was entertained. The first schoolhouse in the San Gabriel Valley, California's first tennis club, and the first municipal Christmas tree of San Marino were located here.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Mission San Gabriel Arcangel — 2.1 mi
  The fourth Alta California mission, built on Tongva land with Tongva labor, rebuilt after arson and now telling that story straight.
• Colorado Street Bridge — 2.6 mi
  Beaux-Arts concrete arches curving 150 feet above the Arroyo Seco, opened in 1913 and later a link in Route 66.
• Santa Monica Pier — 22 mi
  Where the Mother Road runs out of continent, and where the End of the Trail sign gives the drive somewhere to finish.

More markers nearby

• Old Mill — 0.6 mi
• Pasadena Playhouse — 2.1 mi
• Mission San Gabriel Arcángel — 2.1 mi
• The Ortega-Vigare Adobe — 2.2 mi