Hood House

The bronze spells the house's first mistress Elisa. She was Eliza Shaw, a teenage bride, and from 1877, when William Hood fell ill, she ran the ranch and enlarged its winery until foreclosure in 1893. Los Guilicos is a Coast Miwok word for a Wappo village that stood on Calabazas Creek. The house became a Utah senator's summer retreat, then the state's girls' reform school. In January 2020 the county opened a tiny-home shelter on the campus for people cleared from the Joe Rodota Trail encampment.

What the plaque says

Hood House This was the site of Rancho Los Guilucos (18,833 acres), granted in 1839 by Governor Juan Bautista Alvarado to John Wilson and his wife, Ramona Carrillo, sister-in-law of General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo. The house, constructed in 1858 by William Hood for his bride, Elisa Shaw of Sonoma, incorporates the original bricks fired on the property, and has been in continuous use. The property was purchased in 1943 by the California Department of Youth Authority for Los Guilucos School for Girls. California Registered Historical Landmark No. 692 Plaque placed by the California State Park Commission in cooperation with Los Guilucos Citizens' Advisory Committee and the Sonoma Valley Historical Society, May 28, 1960.

Where it stands

More markers nearby

• John Medica's Castles & Garden — 4.6 mi
• Jack London State Historic Park — 6.3 mi
• Beringer Brothers Winery — 7.0 mi
• Charles Krug Winery — 7.1 mi