Rancho Los Feliz Adobe
Hidden behind towering white bird of paradise plants and an ancient oak, the Rancho Los Feliz Adobe in Griffith Park in Los Angeles now serves as the Park Ranger Headquarters. Rancho Los Feliz was a 6,647-acre Spanish land concession, roughly the Los Feliz neighborhood and Griffith Park, given by Spanish Governor Pedro Fages to José Vicente Feliz in 1795. It was one of the first land grants made in California. Feliz, a veteran of the Anza Expedition of 1776, was the Spanish military leader at the Pueblo of Los Angeles. The adobe house was built in the 1830s by his heirs. In 1882, Colonel Griffith Jenkins Griffith acquired 4,071 acres of the rancho and donated 3,015 acres to the city of Los Angeles to be used as a park in 1896. The adobe was designated a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in 1988.
Griffith Park, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County
Photographer: Andrew Schmidt