{"nrhp_refnum":"74000522","name":"Centinela Adobe","other_names":["La Casa del Rancho Aguaje del Centinela"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"7634 Midfield Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Los Angeles","county":"Los Angeles County","state":"CA","lat":33.96746684800007,"lon":-118.37207639699994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-05-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A early California adobe ranch house at 7634 Midfield Avenue, Los Angeles, on its original hilltop site. The central adobe section was built in 1834 by Ignacio Machado as the center of Rancho Aguaje del Centinela.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the adobe was the headquarters and center of growth of the Centinela Valley from the Mexican rancho era to modern housing and industrial subdivisions. Its agricultural history parallels the development of Los Angeles County, including sheep raising, citrus planting and Daniel Freeman's pioneering dry farming of small grains. It is also noted as an unusually well-preserved early adobe.","narrative":"Centinela Adobe is an early California adobe ranch house sitting on the knoll where it was built in 1834, overlooking the valley that gave it the name Centinela, meaning sentinel. Ignacio Machado built the three-room core with two-foot-thick adobe bricks made on site. In the 1860s Robert Burnett added batten-and-board wings, a shingled roof over the older tar roof, and spiral-patterned brick chimneys. Verandas about ten feet wide run along three sides. The listing rests on the property's role in agriculture. The house served as headquarters of the Centinela Valley from the Mexican rancho period onward, through Burnett's sheep and citrus operations and Daniel Freeman's successful dry farming of grain in 1876, which helped shape farming across Los Angeles County. Freeman later subdivided the land, and housing and industry gradually replaced the fields. The adobe is unusually well preserved and is open to the public.","period_of_significance":"19th Century","architect_builder":"Ignacio Machado (built the adobe, 1834); Robert Burnett (added wooden wings in the 1860s)","architectural_style":"Early California adobe; ranch style","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as good and altered; open to the public as a museum, owned by the City of Inglewood, and described as continually occupied since 1834 with a partly custodial residence.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:31.993513-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/74000522.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74000522/ca0aa1550e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74000522/ca0aa1550e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Los Angeles","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Centinela_Adobe,_Los_Angeles.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Centinela_Adobe,_Los_Angeles.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123859021","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centinela_Adobe","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5060150"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/los-angeles-county/centinela-adobe-74000522/"}