Yorba-Slaughter Adobe, Adobe residence in Chino, United States.
The Yorba-Slaughter Adobe is a one-story adobe house on Pomona Rincon Road near Chino, built in the early 1850s in the building style of California's Mexican period. It has a sleeping loft under the roof and porches along its sides.
Raimundo Yorba built the adobe in the early 1850s on land he believed belonged to Rancho El Rincon, his father Bernardo Yorba's grant, though a later survey found it lay outside the rancho. Yorba lived there until 1868, when Fenton M. Slaughter, a Forty-Niner and Mexican–American War veteran later elected to the California State Assembly, bought the house and stayed until his death in 1897. His daughter Julia Slaughter Fuqua began rehabilitating it in 1928; it became a California Historical Landmark on June 20, 1935, and joined the National Register of Historic Places on July 7, 1975.
The adobe is named for Raimundo Yorba, who built it, and Fenton M. Slaughter, a Forty-Niner and Mexican–American War veteran who bought it in 1868 and lived there until his death in 1897. Slaughter later served in the California State Assembly. His daughter, Julia Slaughter Fuqua, began rehabilitating the building in 1928.
The adobe stands at 17127 Pomona Rincon Road near Chino, a branch museum of the San Bernardino County Museum. Its rooms and the 1890s period general store are seen on self-guided tours, with guided tours available on request. The site is open Wednesday to Sunday from 12 PM to 4 PM; admission is free and donations are welcome.
A later survey found that the adobe, though built by Raimundo Yorba, did not actually lie within his father Bernardo Yorba's Rancho El Rincon grant. The house stayed in the Yorba family until 1868, when Forty-Niner and Mexican–American War veteran Fenton M. Slaughter bought it and lived there until his death in 1897.
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