Site of Home of Diego Sepúlveda

José Diego Sepúlveda built his house on Rancho de los Palos Verdes in 1853, and it was 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. The landmark here is the ground it stood on, not a structure.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Santa Monica Pier — 21 mi
  Where the Mother Road runs out of continent, and where the End of the Trail sign gives the drive somewhere to finish.
• Mission San Gabriel Arcangel — 26 mi
  The fourth Alta California mission, built on Tongva land with Tongva labor, rebuilt after arson and now telling that story straight.

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