Campo de Cahuenga
- Style
- Spanish Colonial Revival
- City
- Los Angeles, CA
Campo de Cahuenga marks the site where the 1847 Treaty of Cahuenga was signed, the ceasefire between Lieutenant Colonel John C. Frémont and General Andrés Pico that ended the American conquest of California. The original adobe was demolished in 1900; the city of Los Angeles bought the property in 1923 and, after an effort led by Irene T. Lindsay of the San Fernando Valley Historical Society, dedicated a replica adobe ranch house as an interpretive center on November 2, 1950.
the building
The replica adobe. The current building is not the original 1847 structure but a 1950 reconstruction, a Mission Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival ranch house built to stand in for the demolished adobe where the treaty was signed.
the style
The replica was built in a blend of Mission Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival forms, styles chosen in 1950 to evoke the vanished Californio-era adobe rather than to reproduce it exactly.
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Campo de Cahuenga is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument, and is maintained as a park and interpretive center by the city's Department of Recreation and Parks together with the Campo de Cahuenga Historical Memorial Association.