Alviso Adobe Community Park
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The Alviso adobe
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| Location | 3546 Old Foothill Road Pleasanton, California 94588 |
| Coordinates | 37°39′38″N 121°54′43″W / 37.66063°N 121.91198°WCoordinates: 37°39′38″N 121°54′43″W / 37.66063°N 121.91198°W |
| Area | 7 acres (2.8 ha) |
| Built | 1854 |
| Architect | Francisco Alviso |
| Official name: Francisco Solano Alviso Adobe | |
| Designated | September 24, 1953 |
| Reference no. | 510 |
 Location of Alviso Adobe Community Park in California
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The Alviso Adobe Community Park is a 7-acre (2.8 ha) park in the city of Pleasanton, California, United States. It is built around an adobe house constructed in 1854 by Francisco Alviso on the Rancho Santa Rita Mexican Land Grant. The Alviso Adobe is a rare surviving example of an early American adobe that was continuously in use until 1969. The building is registered as California Historical Landmark #510 in 1954, but most of the historical marker was later found to be erroneous.
Construction of the park was initially planned to begin in 2000, but the city could not secure funding until 2007, when the $4.4 million project was finally begun. The park opened to the public with a grand-opening ceremony on October 25, 2008. Besides the adobe, which is furnished as it would have been in the 1920s, the park contains a replica of an old dairy and interpretive displays of Ohlone culture.
Built in 1854 by Francisco Alviso (1818- ), the adobe was on the lands of the 8,894-acre (35.99 km2) Rancho Santa Rita, given in 1839 as a Mexican land grant to Jose Dolores Pacheco. Rancho Santa Rita was surrounded on the north by Rancho San Ramon (owned by Jose Maria Amador, Francisco Alviso's uncle) and on the east and south by Rancho Valle de San Jose (owned by Juan and Augustin Bernal and their brother-in-law Antonio Sunol). Franciso Alviso's father, Francisco Solano Alviso (1792- ), was once Pacheco's majordomo (ranch manager).
During the railroad boom period of the 1860s, Rancho Santa Rita was sub divided into fifteen smaller tracts of varying sizes. The Alviso Adobe became the center of a "small" 200-acre (0.8 km2) farm overlooking the Amador Valley and was occupied by Francisco Alviso and his wife Maria Ysabel (1819- ) and their ten children. Alviso sold the property and land in 1872 to J. West Martin, a land speculator and later mayor of Oakland. Martin then resold it to Anthony Chabot, the "Water King". Census records indicate that the Alviso family continued to live there for almost 30 years until the 1880s.
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