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NOTES ON THE NEWHALL RANCH HOUSE
Jerry Reynolds
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Square nails and the use of rip saws on the timbers suggest a
construction date prior to the 1890s for part of the building.

Bricks stamped "J.Mullally Los Angeles" also testify to a mid-
19th century date.
Joseph Mullally and his associates,Porter and Ayers erected
some of the first brick buildings in Los Angeles in 1853. By
October of 1869 he had a brickyard by the Jewish Cemetary with
two kilns with a capacity of 225,000.

SOURCE: Harris Newmark
"Sixty Years in Southern
Califo;r_nia"

A map of the Rancho San Francisco,dated 1870, shows three str-
uctures at the Newhall Ranch House site. One is labeled "The
old ranch house \ , which is the Asistencia site on the hill.The
other two are not marked, however one is part way down the hill
and is the old milk house. The third is marked exactly where the
Newhall Ranch House stood until August 14,1990.

SOURCE: L..F., Coope:r ,~.,._C.E ..
HIRanclio San Francisco
As Partitioned January
A •. D •. 1870,.

"It was not until the autumn of 1878 when (Henry Mayo) Newhall
and his son(Henry Gregory Newhall) set up their headquarters in
a frame house that had been built to replace the old Del Valle
Ranch House ... standing today at the location of the feed yards
(now Magic Mountain overflow parking lot).Newhall dammed the
stream and installed one thousand feet of pipe to the house."

SOURCE Ruth W. Newhall
"The Newhall Ranch"

" ... on the Southern Pacific Line where the Newhall Ranch now
stands." 1890
SOURCE: Maj. Horace Bell
"On The Old West Coast"

"In 1893 the Board of Directors( of Newhall Land and Farming)
approved an expenditure of $3,500 to build a residence on the
ranch, which was a major expense for those people."

SOURCE: Ruth W. Newhall
Minutes of Board Meetings
at Newhall Land.

Personal Communication
August 21 ,1990