Rancho Los Encinos

Rancho El Encino
The limestone Garnier building at Rancho Los Encinos: restored from 1994 Northridge earthquake damages and now the park's Visitor Center.
Rancho Los Encinos is located in the Los Angeles metropolitan area
Rancho Los Encinos
LocationEncino, California
Coordinates34°9′34.40″N 118°29′58.28″W / 34.1595556°N 118.4995222°W / 34.1595556; -118.4995222
Built1845
Architectural styleSpanish Colonial, Basque vernacular
NRHP reference No.71000142 [1]
Added to NRHPFebruary 24, 1971

Rancho Los Encinos (also Rancho El Encino and Rancho Encino) was a Spanish grazing concession,[2] and later Mexican land granted cattle and sheep rancho and travelers way-station on the El Camino Real in the San Fernando Valley, in present-day Encino, Los Angeles County, California. The original 19th-century adobe and limestone structures and natural Encino Springs are now within the Los Encinos State Historic Park.

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
  2. ^ Beck, Warren A. and Ynez D. Haase, Historical Atlas of California, p. 37