Site of Home of Diego Sepúlveda is an adobe home, built by José Diego Sepúlveda (1820–1869) in 1853. This was the first two-story Monterey-type adobe built in

Southern California Southern California (commonly shortened to SoCal) is a geographic and Cultural area, cultural List of regions of California, region that generally comprises the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Its densely populated coastal reg ...

. It was designated a

California Historic Landmark A California Historical Landmark (CHL) is a building, structure, site, or place in the U.S. state of California that has been determined to have statewide historical landmark significance. Criteria Historical significance is determined by meetin ...

(No. 380) on Jan. 3, 1944. It was located in what is now

San Pedro, Los Angeles San Pedro ( ; ) is a neighborhood located within the South Bay (Los Angeles County), South Bay and Los Angeles Harbor Region, Harbor region of the city of Los Angeles, California, United States. Formerly a separate city, it consolidated with Los ...

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. Nothing remains of the home. José Diego Sepúlveda was part owner of

Rancho San Bernardino Rancho San Bernardino was a Mexican land grant in present-day San Bernardino County, California given in 1842 by Governor Juan B. Alvarado to José del Carmen Lugo, José María Lugo, Vicente Lugo, and Diego Sepulveda. The grant included a l ...

. José Diego Sepúlveda married María Francisca Elisalde at

Mission San Gabriel Arcángel Mission San Gabriel Arcángel () is a Californian mission and historic landmark in San Gabriel, California. It was founded by the Spanish Empire on the Nativity of Mary September 8, 1771, as the fourth of what would become twenty-one Spanish mi ...

. Their eldest son was Román Dolores Sepúlveda (1851–1940). José Diego Sepúlveda was the son of

José Dolores Sepúlveda José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced very differently in each of the two languages: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , ...

(1793–1824) and María Ignacia Marcia Ávila.Román Sepúlveda on a Horse
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{{Spanish America Adobe buildings and structures in California Houses completed in 1853 California Historical Landmarks 1853 establishments in California

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