The building bears a plaque placed by the Native Daughters of the Golden West on Jwhen Hancock Park-La Brea was made a State of California Historical Landmarks No. The significance of the structure has been recognized by the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Board. Dusty roadside stands selling corn and melons during the depression years evolved into Farmers Market which now draws some 20 million visitors each year to the very courtyard of the adobe. A racing stadium and a baseball park flourished and vanished a vast television studio taking their place. Skeletons of prehistoric animals came to light in the brea pits, drawing archaeologists from all over the world to the sorting tables set up where the new Los Angeles Museum of Art has recently taken shape. A sudden forest of derricks once covered the oil-rich land, only to be succeeded by tracts of suburban homes, the houses by apartments, stores and towering office buildings. The Indian brea artisans have given way before Californios loading carretas with the heavy asphaltum for the roofs of the flourishing pueblo of Los Angeles, and they in turn to the insistent gringos. The rancho's gentle hill and stange, black-pooled brea marshes noted by the first Spanish explorers have seen herds of cattle and flocks of sheep come and go. It has changed hands only twice and has retained its original function without interruption, while most of the 44 hundred acres granted in 1828 to Antonio Jose Rocha have lost identity beneath the grid of city streets. The history of the house, as simple and straightforward as the lines of its construction, contrasts dramatically with the complex development of the surrounding ranch lands it once governed. Significance: The one-story adobe house built by the original grantee of Rancho La Brea continues to serve as a family residence, the plan of the basic structure virtually unchanged since pastoral times.Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. Government images copied from other sources may be restricted. No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Rocha, Antonio Southern California Chapter, American Institute of Architects Historic American Buildings Survey, creator Title: Rancho La Brea Adobe, 6301 West 3rd Street, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA
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