Branch House

Well-known American architect John Russell Pope designed the Branch House in 1916 as a winter residence for John Kerr Branch, a wealthy financier from a distinguished Virginia family. Pope also designed Broad Street Station, now Richmond's Science Museum, as well ...

Lee Family Ranch House

This house built in 1917 by family members on land purchased from Mrs. J. Putnam is located adjacent to the 32 acre Lorenz Ranch farmed by the Lee family since 1906. Acquired from the Lee family in 1989 by Trinity ...

Hubert H. Bancroft, Ranch House

From 1885 until his death in 1918, this one story adobe house was the home of Hubert Howe Bancroft, noted historian of the West. Bancroft's 39 fact-packed volumes, published in San Francisco between 1882 and 1890, maintain their preeminence as ...

Ranch House

Considered by some to be the oldest dwelling in Lake County, the Ranch House was built in the 1850’s to 1860’s. It was associated with the earliest settlement of High Valley and beginnings of agriculture in Lake County. It is ...

McDonald Ranch House Trinity Site

National Historic Landmark

Restored by

US Army White Sands Missile Range

US Department of Energy

National Park Service

1984

In the front room of this humble ranch house the world's first nuclear device was assembled on 13 July 1945. The device was then taken to Trinity ...

The Oldest House on Branch Street

Henry Stackhouse built this

home of salt box design

c. 1815. The front porch was

added later. The cedar siding

resists the elements without

needing to be painted.

Marker is on Branch Street, on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Domínguez Ranch House

[The arch way leading to the grounds is flanked by two markers:]

Right Marker:

Domínguez Ranch House

Central portion built in 1826 by Manuel Domínguez.

Rancho San Pedro

Ten square leagues granted, provisionally by Governor Fages to Juan José ...

Plique – La Branche House

Erected about 1825 by Jean Felix Pinson and Maurice Pizetta, builder, sold by them in 1827 to Giraud M. Plique. Acquired in 1829 by Jean Baptiste La Branche, planter of St. Charles Parish, and occupied as his city residence until ...

Bancroft Ranch House

Adobe built about 1850 by A.S. Ensworth. Home of Capt. Rufus K. Porter and family. Curved timbers brought from the "Clarissa Andrews," famed coaling hulk formerly of the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. Historian Hubert Howe Bancroft later owned this estate ...

Warner Ranch House

In 1844, Gov. Manuel Micheltorena granted 44,322 acres to Juan Jose Warner who built this house. Gen. Kearny passed here in 1846; Mormon Battalion in 1847. First Butterfield Stage stopped at this ranch on Oct. 6, 1858 enroute from Tipton, ...