Site information:

North of Juan St on Wallace St, Old Town, San Diego

32.756322,-117.19663

Plaque information:

State and private plaque

State plaque text:

Casa de Carrillo

Presidio Comandante Francisco Maria Ruiz built this house next to his 1808 pear garden lake in 1821 for his close relative and fellow soldier, Joaquin Carrillo, and his large family. From this adobe dwelling, in April 1829, daughter Josefa Carrillo eloped to Chile with Henry Delano Fitch. When Ruiz died in 1839 and Joaqui­n soon afterwards, son Ramon Carrillo sold this property to Lorenzo Soto. It was transferred several times before 1932, deteriorating gradually, until George Marston and associates restored the house and grounds and deeded them to the City of San Diego as a golf course.

First registered December 6, 1932. Plaque placed by the State Department of Parks and Recreation in cooperation with the San Diego City Department of Parks and Recreation and Squibob Chapter, E Clampus Vitus, August 6, 1994.

Private plaque text:

A portion of la casa de Carrillo
- Pear Garden House -
A center of social life & romance in early Spanish days.  Here lived Senorita Josefa Carrillo. 

One of the oldest adobe dwellings in San Diego - Built about the year 1810.  Restored in October 1931

Registered 12/6/1932