12/1/1999
12/1/1999
Landmark information
- Location:
NE corner of Memory and Bancroft Dr, Spring Valley - Plaque:
Official State Plaque - Site:
Existing - Date First Visited:
12/1/1999 - Date Most Recently Visited:
12/1/1999 - GPS Coordinates:
N 32 44.742, W 117 0.117 - Other Designations:
National Historic Landmark
National Register of Historic Places
About this landmark
Plaque text:
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 and here wrote a part of his monumental history of California.