Site of Home of Diego Sepúlveda

José Diego Sepúlveda built his house on Rancho de los Palos Verdes in 1853. The state's listing calls it the first two-story Monterey-type adobe in Southern California: mud brick walls in the old manner, a full-length upper balcony in the new. The style marks the moment Yankee carpentry met Californio building. The rancho under it was Tongva land, granted away in pieces after 1784. Nothing of the house is left, and nothing cast marks the ground, a block of Channel Street in San Pedro.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• The Port of Los Angeles — 1.3 mi
  The busiest container port in the country, sitting on ground that was dredged into existence: marsh, then landfill, then Pier 400.
• Terminal Island and Furusato — 2.1 mi
  Three thousand Japanese Americans built a village here they called Furusato, and in February 1942 were given forty-eight hours to leave it.
• Drum Barracks — 2.9 mi
  The Union Army built its Southern California headquarters in a county that had voted against Lincoln two to one, and stabled the Army camels here.
• Korean Friendship Bell — 3.0 mi
  Seventeen tons of bronze given by Korea for the American bicentennial, on the bluff above the harbor its troops shipped out from.

More markers nearby

• S.S. Catalina — 1.1 mi
• Liberty Hill Site — 1.1 mi
• Timms' Point and Landing — 2.0 mi
• Casa de San Pedro — 2.3 mi