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Description
Photograph of an exterior view of Louis Rubidoux's (aka Louis Robidoux) Ranch House in Riverside, ca.1869. The long, two-story adobe is pictured at center a little in the distance. Just in front of it, lining the dirt road that runs past it, four bare trees stand, obscuring much of the house. However, a wooden door can be seen just back from the porch at left, while a brick structure of some kind, possibly a chimney, is visible just back from the house to the right. A second chimney can be seen extending from the roof at left as well. On the opposite side of the dirt road, what appears to be a barbed-wire fence is standing. Mountains can be seen in the distance at right. Picture file card reads "Ranch house of Louis Rubidoux, owner of the Jurupa rancho, from 1849 to 1869. Site located at the 823 Mission Road, about 1 mile west of Riverside and one half mile west of the bridge over the Rio Jurupa at the base of Mount Rubidoux. Rubidoux purchased the entire rancho in 1848 or 1849". "This adobe house was originally built by Don Juan Bandini and Able Stearns in 1839, as their home and occupied by them until 1843. The Jurupa grant was made to Don Juan Bandini, September 28, 1838 by Governor Juan B. Alvarado. Later, ownership of portions of the grant passed to Bon Bonito Wilson and Don Julian (Issac) Williams. Rubidoux purchased the entire rancho in 1848-1849. The state has marked the site as an Historical Landmark. There is nothing left of the old house to indicate where it stood except an old Cabbage Rose such as the old time Californians always planted. There are some Eucalyptus trees, old and about ready to perish, which they told me stood in the rear of the old house. From the state Historical Marker, I made a note that the house was built on site in 1843, by Benito Wilson, original grantee of the Jurpa rancho. It was occupied from 1847 to 1868, the date of his death, by Rubidoux, a native of Saint Louis, Taos Trapper, and Chino Battle Captive, who purchased the Jurupa Ranch and was the first permanent settler in the community. The property is owned at the present time (about 1 acre) by R.R. Nichol and his son-in-law, C.M. McGuire, who lives in a house on it". -- Crum. 4/25/1937
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : transparency, b&w 21 x 26 cm. transparencies photographs
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