Sánchez Adobe Park, Historical landmark in Linda Mar Valley, Pacifica, United States.
Sánchez Adobe Park is a restored adobe residence set on approximately 5.5 acres of land near San Pedro Creek in San Mateo County. The site now functions as a house museum maintained by the San Mateo County History Museum with educational displays about the region's past.
The site was an Ohlone village, Pruristac, before 1786, when Mission Dolores founded the San Pedro y San Pablo Asistencia there, with a granary, chapel and four rooms around a plaza. After the outpost was abandoned in 1834, Francisco Sánchez built the adobe on its site from 1842 to 1846, likely reusing its bricks, as the centre of his 9,000-acre Rancho San Pedro.
The City of Pacifica holds Rancho Days each mid-September at the adobe, with music, historical reenactments and food. On 26 October 2019 the site hosted its first Ohlone Day, honouring the Aramai of the Ramaytush Ohlone village of Pruristac, and a new visitor center opened the same day.
The grounds are easy to explore on foot with pathways around the adobe building and across the property. Visitors should wear comfortable shoes and come prepared for changing weather, as the location is open and relatively close to the coast.
Edward Kirkpatrick bought the property in 1871 and enlarged the adobe to twenty rooms in the late 1880s. It then served as a hotel called the Adobe House and, during Prohibition, as a speakeasy. In the 1940s it was used as a farm building for artichoke farming.
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