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Los Cerritos Ranch House, also known as Rancho Los Cerritos or Casa de los Cerritos, in Long Beach, California, was "the largest and most impressive adobe residence erected in southern California during the Mexican period". [3] Los Cerritos means "the little hills" in English. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1970.
Los Cerritos Ranch House, after restoration. Photo by Daniel Cathcart, March 8th, 1934. In 1843, he purchased Rancho Los Cerritos from his wife's relatives, the Cota family. His 1844 adobe survives as part of Los Cerritos Ranch House, a National Historic Landmark site. Both Temple and his ranch house played roles in the Mexican-American War.
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 Los Cerritos was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1852 [ 5 ] [ 6 ] and Temple received the US patent for ...
The Bixby family is an American family that was heavily involved in the development of California ranches and real estate in the 19th and 20th centuries. Through various companies, they controlled at one time or another large swathes of California real estate, much of it derived from Mexican land grants.
Los Cerritos (sometimes called Los Cerritos/Virginia Country Club) is a neighborhood with approximately 700 homes and 2,000 residents located within the Bixby Knolls neighborhood of Long Beach, California. Established in 1906, the Los Cerritos neighborhood has been used by the film industry of Hollywood with its historic, estate-sized homes. It ...
Andrew Molera State Park; El Sur Ranch Monterey: Tularcitos: 1834 José Figueroa: Rafael Gomez 26,581 acres (10,757 ha) 3 SD Monterey: Los Alamitos: 1834 José Figueroa: Juan Jose Nieto: 28,027 acres (11,342 ha) 140 SD Los Alamitos, Seal Beach: Orange: Las Bolsas: 1834 José Figueroa: Catarina Ruiz: 33,460 acres (13,541 ha) 208 SD
Until the early 1920s California Heights was part of the Bixby Ranch (now Rancho Los Cerritos) and was used primarily as grazing land.It was the discovery of oil on Signal Hill and the ensuing land boom in 1921 that caused the Jotham Bixby Company to subdivide and sell off lots in the California Heights tract.
[1] [2] [3] He also restored the grounds of the Los Cerritos Ranch House in Long Beach. [1] [2] Additionally, he designed the grounds of Pomona College, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Hawaii. [1] [4] He was a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects. [1]