Lopez Adobe, Adobe house in San Fernando, United States

The Lopez Adobe on Pico Street is a two-story house in San Fernando built from sun-dried adobe bricks, with wooden verandas and hand-cut railings. It combines Victorian design details with Mission Revival influences and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Valentin Lopez had the house built between 1882 and 1883, during the first years of settlement in the valley. The family kept it until 1971, when the city of San Fernando took it over to preserve it as a record of pioneer life.

The store, English-language school and post office that the López family ran from 1869 stood at the earlier López Station adobe, not in this 1882 house. The family's role is recalled by the adobe itself: Gerónimo and Catalina López had thirteen children, nine of whom reached adulthood, and more than 100 descendants met here for the building's centenary in 1982.

The adobe stands at 1100 Pico Street in San Fernando. Public tours are held only on the fourth Sunday of each month, from 12 to 4 P.M., so plan a visit around that window. The site reopened on March 22, 2015, after restoration.

The first local newspaper, the San Fernando Times, was printed in April 1889 from the Lopez Adobe. The building also held the valley's first post office, established in 1869, and the first English-language school. Geronimo and Catalina Lopez had thirteen children, nine of whom reached adulthood; more than 100 descendants returned for the house's centennial in 1982.