The Serrano Adobe

The bronze honours the grantee in the name of the family that ended up with his house. José Serrano was granted Cañada de los Alisos in 1842 and built this adobe about 1863, the year the drought began that killed his herds; foreclosure gave the rancho to the banker J. S. Slauson. Dwight Whiting bought it in 1884, and in 1932 his son George remodelled the adobe, adding a dining room, bedroom and kitchen. That is the restoration the plaque dates. The register still calls the house private living quarters; it has been a county park since 1981.

What the plaque says

State of California Historic Landmark No. 199 La Casa de Adobe de Jose Serrano Home of Jose Serrano, original grantee of Rancho Cañada de los Alisos Restored A. D. 1932

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• California Citrus State Historic Park — 23 mi
  A state park that is still a working orange grove — the last big piece of Riverside's citrus landscape left standing.
• Planes of Fame Air Museum — 23 mi
  On the field where the country smelted its surplus warplanes — and about thirty of the aircraft here still fly.
• Sherman Institute & the Sherman Indian Museum — 24 mi
  The federal Indian boarding school Riverside lobbied to get — still a school today, its 1902 building now a museum.
• Puvungna — 27 mi
  The Acjachemen and Tongva place of creation: twenty-two acres of open ground on a university campus, still not in the hands of its people.

More markers nearby

• Barton Mound — 3.7 mi
• Old Town Irvine — 4.4 mi
• Modjeska's Home — 5.7 mi
• Flores Peak — 6.0 mi