On November 7 of that year Juana Briones purchased the 4,400-acre Rancho La Purisima Concepcion. The house she subsequently built there still stands, tastefully enlarged in the early 1900s.
Note barns down the hill.
The present owners are suing the City of Palo Alto for denying their application to demolish it. The house is situated on a knoll, a glorious 1.54 acres in the southwest corner of the city. The three core rooms of the early period are of rammed earth construction. Only a few examples using this type of earthen construction remain in California. Juana Briones herself was a remarkable woman.