{"nrhp_refnum":"86000778","name":"Hill-Carrillo Adobe","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"11 E. Carrillo St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Santa Barbara","county":"Santa Barbara County","state":"CA","lat":34.42234893400007,"lon":-119.70186657799997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-01-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A single-story, U-shaped adobe building at 11 East Carrillo Street in Santa Barbara, California. The street-facing section is the original 1825-26 adobe built by Daniel Hill, and two stucco wings were added to the rear in the early 20th century.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it a major remnant of California's Mexican past and a good example of Hispanic-era architecture and construction. It is tied to Santa Barbara's social and political life, including early American settlers, Captain John D. Wilson, and the first city council meetings in 1850. The reviewer's final comments accept it under Criteria A and C, citing its rarity as a surviving example of adobe construction and its association with early Mexican history.","narrative":"Hill-Carrillo Adobe is a single-story, U-shaped building at 11 East Carrillo Street in Santa Barbara. Its street-facing section is the original adobe of 1825-26, built by Daniel Hill, an early American settler, for himself and his wife, Rafaela Luisa Ortega. Two stucco wings added in the early 20th century form a rear courtyard. The front has a tile roof over a veranda, classical wooden mouldings, and twelve-paned double-hung windows in their original locations. The house later belonged to Captain John D. Wilson and became a center of social life in the last years of Mexican rule. In 1847 General John C. Fremont used it as temporary headquarters. The first Santa Barbara city council met there in 1850, and a portrait painter had a studio there in 1851. The Carrillo family owned it from the 1850s. Listed for architecture and for its association with early Mexican-era history, it is valued as a rare surviving adobe despite changes to its interior and setting.","period_of_significance":"1825-1850s","architect_builder":"Daniel Hill","architectural_style":"Hispanic-era California adobe construction","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Marked occupied and in good, altered condition. It houses the Santa Barbara Foundation and other offices. The roof structure was recently reconstructed with hand-adzed beam and rafter replacements and the original tile reinstalled.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:27.814826-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/86000778.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86000778/1c8688ef06-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86000778/1c8688ef06-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Ymblanter","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hill-Carrillo_Adobe.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Ymblanter</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:Hill-Carrillo_Adobe.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123861594","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill%E2%80%93Carrillo_Adobe","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5761953"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/santa-barbara-county/hill-carrillo-adobe-86000778/"}