11/29/2000
11/29/2000
11/29/2000
Landmark information
- Location:
Village green in front of the Inn, Rancho Santa Fe - Plaque:
Official State Plaque - Site:
Existing - Date First Visited:
11/29/2000 - Date Most Recently Visited:
11/29/2000 - GPS Coordinates:
N 33 1.142, W 117 12.224 - Other Designations:
National Register of Historic Places
About this landmark
Plaque text:
Rancho Santa Fe
Rancho Santa Fe began as Rancho San Dieguito, a land grant of nearly 9,000 acres made to Juan Maria Osuna in 1845. The Santa Fe Railway Company later used the land to plant thousands of eucalyptus trees for use as railroad ties. In the 1920s Rancho Santa Fe became one of the state's first planned communities unified by a single architectural theme, the Spanish Colonial Revival. Lilian Rice, one of California's first successful woman architects, supervised the development and designed many of the buildings.