Jose Dolores Sepulveda Adobe


Jose Dolores Sepulveda Adobe is an adobe home built in 1818. It is located at the Rancho de los Palos Verdes in Torrance, California. The Jose Dolores Sepulveda Adobe was designated a California Historic Landmark on Jan. 03, 1944. The Jose Dolores Sepulveda Adobe was built by José Dolores Sepúlveda, his son was Mayor of Los Angeles from 1837 to 1848. José Dolores Sepúlveda father was José Loreto Sepúlveda. The land that Jose Dolores Sepulveda Adobe was on is now house that is a private residence in Torrance and the current owner has lived there for 35 years. The original Adobe is gone, but current owner renovation the house on the land to reflects the Rancho history of the land. Rancho de los Palos Verdes means "range of green trees". The Rancho is now the present-day cities of the Palos Verdes Peninsula, as well as portions of San Pedro and Torrance.
José Dolores Sepúlveda was one of the sons of Juan José Sepúlveda. In 1784, the Spanish Crown deeded Rancho San Pedro, a tract of over, to soldier Juan José Domínguez. Domínguez died in 1809, and in 1810 the executor of his will, Manuel Gutiérrez, granted permission to then 17-year-old Sepúlveda to herd livestock in the southwestern reaches of Rancho San Pedro. This eventually became the basis for the Sepúlveda family's contested claim to the Rancho de los Palos Verdes, carved out of Rancho San Pedro lands. Dolores went to Monterey to settle his land title, but on his return trip in 1824 he was killed in the Chumash revolt at Mission La Purísima Concepción. In 1834,Governor José Figueroa made a judicial decree intended to settle the dispute between the Domínguez and Sepúlveda families, awarding the Rancho de los Palos Verdes to Juan Capistrano Sepúlveda and José Loreto Sepúlveda.
José Dolores Sepúlveda married María Ignacia Marcia Ávila in November 8, 1813 at Mission San Gabriel Arcángel.

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