La Casa de Carrión

Ygnacio Palomares gave his nephew a piece of Rancho San José, and Saturnino Carrión finished this adobe on it in 1868. The town that grew up around the ranch was Lordsburg, named for the man who bought the land in 1887, and it is La Verne now. Milford Zornes painted the house in 1934; the watercolor is called Old Adobe and it is in the Smithsonian's American Art collection. The state listed the house in 1945 and Paul Traweek restored it in 1951. It never became a museum. People still live in it.

What the plaque says

This house, built in 1868 by Saturnio Carrion, was restored in 1951 by Paul E. Traweek. California Registered Historical Landmark No. 386 Plaque placed by the California State Park Commission in cooperation with Rancho San Jose Parlor No. 307, Pomona, Native Daughters of the Golden West, August 9, 1959.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Mission San Gabriel Arcangel — 18 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 — 22 mi
  Beaux-Arts concrete arches curving 150 feet above the Arroyo Seco, opened in 1913 and later a link in Route 66.
• Wigwam Motel — 25 mi
  Nineteen concrete teepees on Foothill Boulevard, the last of Frank Redford's Wigwam Villages and still renting rooms.
• Cajon Pass — 26 mi
  The gap the San Andreas tore between two mountain ranges, and the doorway every westbound traveler has used for two centuries.

More markers nearby

• Temporary Detention Camp for Japanese Americans, Pomona — 1.6 mi
• Adobe de Palomares — 2.7 mi
• First Home of Pomona College — 3.3 mi
• Glendora Bougainvillea — 5.1 mi