Carillo adobe photo for june 2021 webinar

Carrillo Adobe - Short History

  • Carrillo Family Arrives

    The widow Maria Ygnacio Lopez de Carrillo arrives in the Sonoma County area with her children (different sources state there were 9 or 12) at the bequest of her son-in-law General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo.
  • Carrillo Adobe is Built

    While there was already an adobe structure on the property used by the Franciscans as a chapel, it is unclear what condition it was in when General Vallejo purchased the property. the Carrillo Adobe
  • Carrillo Adobe Property

    The Carrillo Adobe was the first non-Native
    American home in what became Santa Rosa.
    Source: Eric Stanley thesis.
  • Adobe's 100th Anniversary

    In 1937, the current owner of the property - farmer Paul Hahman - was using the Adobe as an out building. When the Press Democrat newspaper announced the Carrillo Adobe's centennial anniversary and people flocked to see it. But Hahman posted a sign that read, "no adobe visitors". The PD pushed for restoration, but there was only a brief spark of interest that faded away.