The Diego Sepúlveda Adobe (sometimes known as the Costa Mesa Estancia or the Santa Ana Estancia) is an

adobe Adobe ( ; ) is a building material made from earth and organic materials. is Spanish for ''mudbrick''. In some English-speaking regions of Spanish heritage, such as the Southwestern United States, the term is used to refer to any kind of e ...

structure in Costa Mesa, Orange County, California.Costa Mesa Historical Society
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History

The adobe was built between 1817 and 1823 to house the

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and herdsmen who tended the cattle and horses from

Mission San Juan Capistrano Mission San Juan Capistrano ( es, Misión San Juan Capistrano) is a Spanish mission in San Juan Capistrano, Orange County, California. Founded November 1, 1776 in colonial ''Las Californias'' by Spanish Catholic missionaries of the Franciscan O ...

to the south, in

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. The way-station was strategically situated on the banks of the

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, some six ''leguas'' ( Spanish Leagues) north of the parent mission, to overlook cattle grazing lands and the

Tongva The Tongva ( ) are an Indigenous people of California from the Los Angeles Basin and the Southern Channel Islands, an area covering approximately . Some descendants of the people prefer Kizh as an endonym that, they argue, is more historically ...

villagers of Lupukngna. It served as a lookout post when the

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Hippolyte de Bouchard attacked San Juan Capistrano on December 14, 1818. By 1820 the building and its surrounding lands became an official ''

estancia An estancia is a large, private plot of land used for farming or raising cattle or sheep. Estancias in the southern South American grasslands, the ''pampas'', have historically been estates used to raise livestock, such as cattle or sheep. In Pu ...

'' (mission station), where padres from the mission would visit regularly to bring "spiritual food" to the faithful.; p. 114 After the

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the church lost the land and building to the originally Spanish, later Mexican-recognized land grant

Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana was a Spanish land concession in present-day Orange County, California, given by Spanish Alta California Governor José Joaquín de Arrillaga in 1810 to Jose Antonio Yorba and his nephew Pablo Peralta. The grant exten ...

. The adobe and its surrounding property, a portion of Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana, were deeded by the U.S. government to Diego Sepúlveda around 1868. He was a former ''

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'' of the Mexican era

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Present day

The adobe, which has been restored to its original style using original construction methods, is the second oldest building still standing in

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. The Mission San Juan Capistrano "Serra's Chapel" is the oldest. The building then became a local

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, operated by the Costa Mesa Historical Society.

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External links

Official Costa Mesa Historical Society website
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