Adventure 051, Site 048 – Dallidet House

Capture California, the Game-2012

Adventure: 051, Site 048 – Dallidet House

California Landmark Number: 720
San Luis Obispo 

Local Registry ID:3

Team: Thing One, Thing Two

Date:  September 19, 2012

Location:

Latitude: 35° 16.858′ N

Longitude: 120° 39.39′ W

Address: 1309 Toro at Pacific, San Luis Obispo

Description:

Date Built: 1859

We came into San Luis Obispo and immediately went to see this house. Tours are given during the weekends, so we could only observe from the outside. The place is well kept up, unlike the adobe house, we had seen a few hours earlier n Kings County.

Dallidet is an old family in San Luis Obispo. The family patriarch had been in the French Foreign Legion and decided to return to California rather than France when his tour of Tahti was completed. After deciding gold mining was not for him, he was going to become a mercenary before settling in San Luis Obispo. Early on there was a family issue where one brother killed another one, but it may have been justifiable. The family resided in this house for over 100 years, until it was given to the San Luis Obispo Historical Society.

NO. 720 DALLIDET ADOBE - This was the home of Pierre Hyppolite Dallidet, a native of France, who settled in San Luis Obispo in 1853 and became a vineyardist. His son, Paul Dallidet, gave it to the San Luis Obispo County Historical Society in 1953, in memory of the Dallidet family that had occupied it for a century.
Location: 1309 Toro at Pacific, San Luis Obispo






References:

• San Luis Obispo History Center
  
• Dallidet Family History
  

Overall Landmark References:

• David Schmitt's California State Historical Landmark (Schmitt)
  
• State of California's California Historical Landmarks (CHL)
  
• Wikipedia: California State Landmarks (WCSL)
  
• State of California Historical Resources (CHR)
  
• Noehill (NOE)
  
• Historical Marker Database (HMDB)