Hawkins--Nimocks Estate-Patricio Ontiveros Adobe
historic place
In Santa Fe Springs, California, the Hawkins-Nimocks Estate-Patricio Ontiveros Adobe is a Historic Place in Los Angeles County. The site's earliest history involves the Patricio Ontiveros Adobe. Patricio Ontiveros, a Mexican mayordomo for Mission San Juan Capistrano, built this adobe in the early 19th century. It served as a headquarters for a large cattle operation. Archaeologists in the 1980s discovered its stone foundation, near where the Carriage Barn now stands. This foundation outlined a substantial three-room structure, considered one of California's largest residential adobes. A trash pit with early 1800s artifacts was also found. In 1880, Eli Hawkins developed a Victorian estate on this land. This ranch featured period architecture and gardens, becoming one of the first and most extensive in Los Angeles County. It was later owned by Margaret and Silas Slusher, who used it as a retreat until it burned in 1941. The Hawkins-Nimocks Estate-Patricio Ontiveros Adobe was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 31, 1987. This site, now part of Heritage Park, connects the early Mexican Rancho period with the later Victorian ranching era in Southern California.