The Catalina Verdugo Adobe , also known as the Catalina Adobe , the Verdugo Adobe , and the Teodoro Adobe , is a historic adobe building and a public park located at 2211 Bonita Drive in Glendale, California .
13-482: The adobe was built on a small portion of the Rancho San Rafael which was granted to José María Verdugo in 1784. Jose Maria Verdugo's grandson, Teodoro Verdugo, built the adobe on a small portion of the rancho. Some sources indicate that the adobe was built for José María Verdugo's blind daughter, Catalina, who lived there until her death in 1871. The most probable date of construction was between 1828 and
26-513: A Mexican schoolteacher from Los Angeles, Ygnacio Coronel . The name means "ranch of the canyon". The rancho included the current day city of La Cañada Flintridge and community of La Crescenta-Montrose . In 1843, Ygnacio Coronel was granted a property he called La Cañada Atras de Rancho Los Verdugos ("canyon behind the Verdugo ranch"). Julio Verdugo disputed the grant claiming it was part of his Rancho San Rafael . Ygnacio Coronel built
39-557: A Spanish soldier who had served with the 1769 Portola-Serra Expedition, received a provisional eight square league grant of the Rancho San Rafael in 1784, from his army commander Governor Pedro Fages , which was confirmed in 1798 by Governor Diego de Borica . In 1798 Verdugo retired from the army to become a full-time rancher. Verdugo died in 1831 and he left his property to his surviving son Julio Antonio Verdugo (1789–1876) and daughter María Catalina Verdugo (1799–1837). With
52-591: A small house near where is now Glendale College , and farmed there until outlaws threatened his family. During the Mexican–American War (1847), Coronel abandoned the rancho, and in 1852 sold Rancho La Cañada to the law partners Jonathan R. Scott and Benjamin Hayes. Scott had come to Southern California from Missouri in 1849, and became the first American justice of the peace in Los Angeles. He administered
65-729: The Verdugo Mountains on the west, the Crescenta Valley and Rancho La Cañada on the north, the Arroyo Seco on the east, and the Los Angeles River on the south. The boundary followed north along the northeast bank of the L.A. River, and then wrapped westerly around present day Griffith Park to a point near the Travel Town Museum there. Corporal José María Verdugo (1751–1831),
78-755: The cession of California to the United States following the Mexican–American War , the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided that the land grants would be honored. As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1852, confirmed by the Commission in 1855, and the grant was patented to Julio and Catalina Verdugo in 1882. In 1857, Jonathan R. Scott traded Rancho La Cañada to Julio and Catalina Verdugo for 4,607 acres (19 km ) acres on
91-533: The 1830s, which are claimed by the City of Glendale and California Parks Service, respectively. Other sources indicate that Catalina lived in the adobe with Teodoro and his family up until her passing in 1861. The adobe was designated as the first entry on the Glendale Register of Historic Resources . It was also registered in 1958 as California Historical Landmark No. 637. In 1976, the adobe along with
104-642: The nearby "Oak of Peace" were listed on the National Register of Historic Places . The property is now owned by the City of Glendale and is operated as a historic park. Markers on the site read: Rancho San Rafael Rancho San Rafael was a 36,403-acre (147.32 km ) Spanish land grant in the San Rafael Hills , bordering the Los Angeles River and the Arroyo Seco in present-day Los Angeles County , southern California , given in 1784 to Jose Maria Verdugo . The rancho includes
117-494: The oath of office to the first Los Angeles City Council on July 3, 1850. Scott bought out Hayes portion of Rancho La Cañada. With the cession of California to the United States following the Mexican–American War, the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided that the land grants would be honored. As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim for Rancho La Cañada was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1852, and
130-493: The present day cities of Burbank , Glendale , La Cañada Flintridge , the Glendale communities of Montrose and Verdugo City ; as well as the city of Los Angeles neighborhoods of Atwater Village , Cypress Park , Eagle Rock , Garvanza , Glassell Park , Highland Park , and Mount Washington . and the portion of the city of Pasadena located west of the Arroyo Seco . The rancho's boundaries were primarily defined by
143-406: The rancho. In 1871, law partners Alfred Chapman and Andrew Glassell filed a lawsuit, known as "The Great Partition", against thirty-six separate defendants. The plaintiffs contended that there were numerous alleged property owners occupying tracts of land whose boundaries were illegally established. Once the validity of the claims were proven, a partition was demanded. Ultimately, Rancho San Rafael
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#1732782571510156-522: The west side of Rancho San Rafael - what is today Burbank . In 1861 Julio and Catalina Verdugo split the rancho between southern (Julio) and northern (Catalina) portions. In 1861, Julio Verdugo mortgaged a substantial portion of the Rancho to Jacob Elias under terms that he could not afford. By the late 1860s, several parcels of Rancho San Rafael had been either sold, or lost due to foreclosures. Many individuals were claiming ownership to multiple sections of
169-496: Was divided into thirty-one sections given to twenty-eight different people, some of which included members of the Verdugo family. 34°08′24″N 118°13′12″W / 34.140°N 118.220°W / 34.140; -118.220 Rancho La Ca%C3%B1ada Rancho La Cañada was a 5,832-acre (23.60 km ) Mexican land grant in the San Rafael Hills and Crescenta Valley , of present-day Los Angeles County, California given in 1843 by Governor Manuel Micheltorena to
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