Palomares Adobe
Publisher Frasher's Fotos
Courtesy of Pomona Public Library
Collection ID# SCP01631

The Adobe de Palomares was built between 1850 and 1854, where Don Ygnacio Palomares lived. The Adobe represents the many changes that were happening in California at the time as more Americans moved west.

It was left abandoned in the 1880s until the City of Pomona took possession of it in 1930. Having been restored in 1939, the Adobe was made a museum about life in the Spanish and Mexican ranchos.

The preservation of this house represents the lifestyle of the Mexican people who lived in California before the American settlers arrived in the West. The land the Adobe was built upon was one of the few pieces of land that Mexican people were able to keep when American settlers started taking land in California.

The Adobe not only represents the era in which it was built but also the culture of Spanish and Mexican ranchos. Preserving the Adobe allows people to see the culture of the time it was built and how deeply rooted and persistent Mexican culture is in California, even before Americans moved westward to California.

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