Great Pacific Iron Works

One of Ventura’s foremost pioneers, William Dewey Hobson, arrived in the 1850s and participated in many successful business ventures, including mining, cattle ranching, real estate and meat packing. The Hobson Brothers Meat Packing Company, established in the 1870s, provided sausage and cut meat for delivery to most parts of the County. The company built this industrial Mission Revival style building in 1923. Chouinard Equipment opened their first retail store, the Great Pacific Iron Works, in this building in the early 1970s. In 1976 Chouinard consolidated the clothing part of his business into a separate company, named Patagonia, and made the building their flagship store. It is a City of Ventura Historic Landmark.

Ventura, Ventura County
Photographer: Andrew Schmidt