Location: 419 E. Las Palmas Drive
1921: Spanish Colonial Revival  This impressive Spanish Colonial style house was apparently the last to be built by the pioneer Bastanchury family. Domingo Bastanchury and his wife, Maria, were Basque immigrants who came to this area in 1870, and immediately bought land in the Fullerton hills for sheep herding. The Bastanchury family acquired more wealth during the oil boom of the 1920s, but their ranch company went bankrupt during the 1930s. At the peak of this family’s success, its holdings were so extensive that all three railroads – the Union Pacific, the Santa Fe and the Pacific Electric -- ran spur lines to the ranch house.
The house now is situated among other single-family residences, all on land that was once the Bastanchury ranch. |
