Peralta House

The builder of the county's first brick house is credited with raising the American flag at Monterey. William P. Toler, a naval midshipman in 1846, married Ignacio Peralta's daughter María Antonia in 1853 and in 1860 put up this house for his father-in-law in three months, hauling handmade bricks from an Alameda Slough brickyard in a straw-lined wagon. The brick is under stucco now. Ignacio died here in 1874, his widow sold in 1875, and the Alta Mira Club, a women's club, has owned it since 1926. The grant was dated August 3, not the October 20 cast here.

What the plaque says

Peralta House First brick house built in Alameda County. Constructed 1860 by W. P. Toler for Ignacio Peralta, early San Leandro Spanish settler, whose father, Don Luis Maria Peralta, received land grant from Spanish Governor Don Pablo Vicente de Sola, October 20, 1820. State Registered Landmark No. 285 Tablet placed by California Centennials Commission. Dedicated October 24, 1949 Peralta Chapter, NSDAR Organized in 1957 Honors Ygnacio Peralta's House built in 1860 on land granted to Don Louis Maria Peralta in 1820 Property purchased in 1926 by the Alta Mira Club Marker placed 1997 This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Muir Beach Overlook — 25 mi
  A cliff edge on Highway 1, and the concrete dugouts where two-man crews watched the sea after Pearl Harbor.
• Muir Woods National Monument — 25 mi
  A redwood canyon saved from a reservoir by a gift, and named for a man who had been there once.

More markers nearby

• Rancho San Antonio — 0.3 mi
• Estudillo Home — 0.5 mi
• San Leandro Oyster Beds — 3.0 mi
• Mills Hall — 3.6 mi