Rancho Las Palmas

Last updated
Rancho Las Palmas
Rancho Las Palmas.jpg
Rancho Las Palmas
Monterey County California Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Salinas Highlighted.svg
Location of Krough House in California
Location100 River Road, Salinas, California
Coordinates 36°40′36″N121°39′36″W / 36.67667°N 121.66000°W / 36.67667; -121.66000
Area1,630-acre (6.6 km2)
Built1891
ArchitectCarlton Bassett
Architectural style Queen Anne
Restored2007
Restored byJohn Larsen & Sons
Website www.chateau-coralini.com
NRHP reference No. 78000722 [1]
Added to NRHPJanuary 18, 1982

Rancho Las Palmas also known as the Hiram Corey house, is a historic Queen Anne style house located at 100 River Road, Salinas, California. It was built by Hiram Corey in 1891, one of Monterey County's most successful stock farmers of the late 19th century. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 4, 1978, as Rancho Las Palmas. [2] Today, the historic mansion is located in a gated residential community named Las Palmas Ranch and was renamed Chateau Coralini, which is open to the public as a boutique inn.

Contents

History

Chateau Coralini (also known as Rancho Las Palmas or Hiram Corey house) Chateau Coralini Front View.jpg
Chateau Coralini (also known as Rancho Las Palmas or Hiram Corey house)

The Rancho Las Palmas estate was part of the original 8,446-acre (34.18 km2) Rancho Buena Vista, Spanish land concession in the Salinas Valley, in present day Monterey County, California that was given in 1795 to José Maria Soberanes (1753-1803) and Joaquin Castro.

In 1872, Hiram Corey leased 7,772-acre (31.45 km2) of Rancho Buena Vista, keeping 450 to 500 cows on the ranch. He purchased the property in 1882. The ranch became known as one of the best dairy farms in California. In 1889, he sold the land to the Buena Vista Land Company and took his family to Europe. While traveling in Europe in 1889, Corey's wife fell in love with Chateau Versailles and wanted her home in Salinas to be her own chateau. In 1891, on his return to the United States, he purchased 1,630-acre (6.6 km2) of Rancho Buena Vista, renaming the property Rancho Las Palmas. He went into horse breading, specializing in draft horses and roadsters. [2] [3]

Hiram Corey and his wife designed and built the Rancho Las Palmas 20-room mansion for his family in 1891, with the assistance of Salinas architect, and Corey's nephew, Carlton Bassett, for $4,000 (equivalent to $130,281in 2022). [4] He originally operated the land as a stock ranch. It was known as one of the best beef and dairy ranches in the state of California. His wife furnished the home with fine antiques and artwork. [5] [2] [6] [7]

Its surroundings are picturesque and residence grand in its architectural proportions, substantial in construction and elegant in arrangement, both within and without.

— Corey's biographer

The Hiram Corey mansion is a three-story, wood-frame, single-family residence built in a Queen Anne style. It is the best example of Queen Anne style of architecture in a rural setting in Monterey County. It has redwood siding, banded with fish-scale shingles halfway into the second story, with a hipped roof and tower with a brass eagle finial detail. Full bay windows can be seen on the first and second stories. The main entrance to the house has stairs leading up to double wood doors with a Queen Anne style wood railing and canopy. Some of the original palm trees line the entrance. A small one story carriage house remains at the rear of the house. [2]

Hiram Corey

Hiram Corey (1831-1913) Hiram Corey (1831-1913).jpg
Hiram Corey (1831-1913)

Hiram Corey (1831-1913) was born on March 7, 1831, in Stanbridge, Quebec, Canada. His father was Captain Reuben Caleb Corey (1801-1859) of Hancock, Massachusetts, who came to Canada when he was two years old. He joined the military service with a commission from Queen Victoria. Corey's mother was Melinda Reynolds (1803-1881) of New York. Hiram Corey arrived from Canada to California on February 26, 1852, with his brother Noah Corey (1827-1909) and went into the lumber business in Marin County. He later took up dairy farming in the same county until 1861. In 1856, on a trip to Vermont, he married Rosanna Cox Frost (1834-1900), a native of Shoreham, Vermont, on October 8, 1856, in Essex, Vermont. They had no children. [8] [9] [2] [5] [10]

Hiram's sister, Sarah Ann (Corey) Littlefield, died on June 1, 1871, leaving 4 small children under 6, to live with Corey and Rosanna. [5] [9]

In 1872, Corey leased the Buena Vista Rancho of 7,772-acre (31.45 km2), along the banks of the Salinas River. He purchased it in 1882. In 1889, he sold the land to Buena Vista Land Company and took his family to Europe. In 1891, he purchased 1,630-acre (6.6 km2) of the ranch, renaming the property the Rancho Las Palmas. Corey and his wife designed and built the Rancho Las Palmas for his family in 1891. [8] [7] [2] [5]

His wife, Rosanna died on March 9, 1900, in Salinas. Corey then married Frances Elfreda Eade (1870-1953) of Jo Daviess County, Illinois, on May 24, 1901, in Salinas, and they had one child together, Augusta Eleanor Corey (1902–1988). She had another child, Emily Pearl Johnson (1895–1970), by a former marriage to Thomas J. Johnson (1863–1897). [5] [9] [8] [10]

Corey was a director of the Monterey County Bank in Salinas, director of Monterey District Agricultural Association, and trustee and a member of the United Presbyterian Church of Salinas. [5] [8]

Corey died in the Lane Hospital in San Francisco on January 18, 1913, at the age of 82. Funeral services were held at the United Presbyterian Church in Salinas and he was buried at the Independent Order of Oddfellows Cemetery in Salinas. [8]

Legacy

After Corey died in 1913, his second wife, Frances, inherited the deed of conveyance on the real and personal property that was worth approximately $200,000 (equivalent to $5,921,886in 2022). She sold Rancho Las Palmas to Joe Violini in 1918, who in 1943 passed it to his four children. Frances moved to Palo Alto with her children. [8] [7] [11]

In 1918, two bags of gold coins exchanged hands when Joe Violini, a Swiss immigrant, bought the Rancho Las Palmas Victorian estate and the 1,600 acre Las Palmas Ranch. The Violini family ran the ranch as a self-contained dairy farm where they also had hundreds of chickens, cured their own bacon, and ham from the hogs they raised, milked the cows, canned the fruit, and baled the hay. Mrs. Violini would bake bread while the children crushed grapes from their family vines in their bare feet.

— Chateau Coralini [4] [11]

In 1979, the Violini family sold the property to the Las Palmas Ranch Venture which began the process to subdivide the land for future development. In 1988, the title again changed hands and it was acquired by the Las Palmas Property Development Company, which completed the subdivision. During this time the Corey House was used as a sales office for the Las Palmas Development Company. [7] [11]

In May 2003, the historic Corey House mansion was bought by Samuel and Linda Persall and converted to a bed and breakfast inn. They renamed it to Chateau Coralini Retreat and Spa. The Persalls had the house and property restored by John Larsen & Sons in 2007. The restoration involved removing all the interior floors, walls, and ceilings and adding new walls, insulation, heating and air, plumbing (installing 12 bathrooms), alarm and sprinkler systems. The wood casings, originals doors, hinge and iron hardware, plaster medallions and corbels, staircase banister, fireplace tilework, and original stained glass were restored. The name Chateau Coralini was created by the Persalls to honor the Coreys and Violinis who once lived in the mansion. A children's dollhouse, built by the Las Palmas Development Company, was purchased by the Persalls and brought to the estate. [4] [12] [13]

See also

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lake Nacimiento</span> Reservoir in San Luis Obispo County, California

Lake Nacimiento is an 18-mile (29 km) long lake on the Nacimiento River in northern San Luis Obispo County, California. The lake contains many arms including Snake Creek and Dip Creek, nearer the dam, and the central Las Tablas and Franklin Creeks.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Carmel Valley, California</span> Unincorporated community in California, United States

Carmel Valley is an unincorporated community in Monterey County, California, United States. The term "Carmel Valley" generally refers to the Carmel River watershed east of California State Route 1, and not specifically to the smaller Carmel Valley Village. For statistical purposes, the United States Census Bureau has defined Carmel Valley as a census county division (CCD), with an area covering approximately 189 square miles (490 km2). At the time of the 2020 census the CCD population was 6,189. In November 2009, a majority of residents voted against incorporation.

Rancho Buena Vista was a 8,446-acre (34.18 km2) Spanish land concession in the Salinas Valley, in present day Monterey County, California given in 1795 to Jose Maria Soberanes and Joaquin Castro. The grant was just south of Spreckels.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jacob P. Leese</span> American pioneer

Jacob Primer Leese, known in Spanish as Don Jacobo Leese, was an Ohio-born Californian ranchero, entrepreneur, and public servant. He was an early resident of San Francisco and married into the family of prominent Californio statesman and general Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, which elevated his rank in Californian society and allowed him to acquire several ranchos.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Juan B. R. Cooper</span>

Juan Bautista Rogers Cooper was a 19th-century pioneer of California, who held British, Mexican, and finally American citizenship. Raised in Massachusetts in a maritime family, he came to the Mexican territory of Alta California as master of the ship Rover, and was a pioneer of Monterey, California, when it was the capital of the territory. He converted to Catholicism, became a Mexican citizen, married the daughter of the Mexican territorial governor, and acquired extensive land holdings in the area prior to the Mexican–American War.

Rancho Los Laureles was a 6,625-acre (26.81 km2) Mexican land grant in present-day Monterey County, California given in 1839 by Governor Juan Alvarado to José Manuel Boronda and Vicente Blas Martínez. Los Laureles refers to the California Bay Laurel tree. The grant extended along the Carmel River and the Carmel Valley, was bounded to the east by the Rancho Tularcitos and Rancho Los Laureles (Ransom) on the west, and encompasses present day Carmel Valley Village.

Rancho San Lorenzo was a 21,884-acre (88.56 km2) Mexican land grant in the southern Salinas Valley, in present-day Monterey County, California, USA. It was given in 1841 by Governor Juan Alvarado to Feliciano Soberanes.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rancho El Sur</span>

Rancho El Sur was a 8,949.06-acre (36.22 km2) Mexican land grant in present-day Monterey County, California on the Big Sur coast given in 1834 by Governor José Figueroa to Juan Bautista Alvarado. The grant extended from the mouth of Little Sur River inland about 2.5 miles (4.0 km) over the coastal mountains and south along the coast past the mouth of the Big Sur River to Cooper's Point. In about 1892, the rancho land plus an additional 3,000 acres (1,200 ha) of resale homestead land was divided into two major parcels. The southern 4,800 acres (1,900 ha) became the Molera Ranch, later the foundation of Andrew Molera State Park. The northern 7,100 acres (2,900 ha) form the present-day El Sur Ranch.

Rancho San Simeon was a 4,469-acre (18.09 km2) Mexican land grant in present-day San Luis Obispo County, California given in 1842 by Governor Juan Alvarado to José Ramón Estrada. The grant extended along the Pacific Coast from Rancho Piedra Blanca at Pico Creek, south along the coast to San Simeon Creek, and includes the present-day townsite of San Simeon Acres.

Rancho El Toro was a 5,668-acre (22.94 km2) Mexican land grant in present day Monterey County, California given in 1835 by Governor José Castro to José Ramón Estrada. The grant extended along Toro Creek south of Hill Town on the Salinas River.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rancho Tularcitos (Goméz)</span> Mexican land grant in California, United States

Rancho Tularcitos was a 26,581-acre (107.57 km2) Mexican land grant in present day Monterey County, California given in 1834 by Governor José Figueroa to Rafael Goméz. Tularcitos means "place of the little Tule thickets". The grant was in the upper Carmel Valley, along Tularcitos Creek, and was bounded on the west by Rancho Los Laureles.

Rancho Encinal y Buena Esperanza was a 13,392-acre (54.20 km2) Mexican land grant in the Salinas Valley, in present-day Monterey County, California.

Rancho Llano de Buena Vista was a 8,446-acre (34.18 km2) Mexican land grant in the Salinas Valley, in present-day Monterey County, California, given in 1823 by Governor Luís Antonio Argüello to José Mariano Estrada. In English, the name means "Good View Plain". The grant extended along the north bank of the Salinas River across the river from the Estrada family's Rancho Buena Vista, and up the river from Hill Town. Rancho Llano de Buena Vista encompassed present-day Spreckels.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jose Eusebio Boronda Adobe</span> Historic house in California, United States

The Jose Eusebio Boronda Adobe is a Monterey Colonial style building from 1846, located in Salinas, Monterey County, California. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, and is a California Historical Landmark.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Garland Ranch Regional Park</span> Public recreational area

Garland Ranch Regional Park is a 3,464 acres (1,402 ha) public recreational area at 700 West Carmel Valley Road, in Carmel Valley, California. It is owned and managed by the Monterey Peninsula Regional Park District. It is located 18 miles (29 km) from Salinas on the south side of Carmel Valley Road on a .5 miles (0.80 km) stretch of the Carmel River It was the district's first land acquisition and was purchased in 1975 from William Garland II.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Holman Ranch</span> Winery in California

Holman Ranch was originally part of the Rancho Los Laureles, a 6,625-acre (26.81 km2) Mexican land grant in present-day Monterey County, California. The ranch passed through many hands until 1928, when San Francisco businessman, Gordon Armsby, purchased 400 acres (160 ha) in Carmel Valley, California, that would become the Holman Ranch. Today, the Holman Ranch continues as a privately owned winery.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hatton Fields</span> Unincorporated community in California, United States

Hatton Fields is an unincorporated community southeast of downtown Carmel-by-the-Sea in Monterey County, California, United States. Homes have views of Carmel Valley, Point Lobos, and Carmel Bay. The residential neighborhood is bordered by Rio Road to the south, Hatton Road to the north, Hatton Canyon to the east, and Junipero Street to the west. The terrain is rolling and naturally landscaped with mature oaks, redwoods, and Monterey Pine trees. Carmel High School, Carmel Mission, and Flanders Mansion are landmarks in this neighborhood. Carmel Mission and Flanders Mansion are two properties that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Mission Trail Nature Preserve runs adjacent to Hatton Fields. Homes are part of the Carmel Unified School District.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">William Hatton (pioneer)</span> Irish-born pioneer

William Hatton was an American businessman who was one of Carmel Valley, California's pioneers. He was manager of the dairy and cattle interests of the Pacific Improvement Company, acquired land of his own, and became one of the wealthiest dairymen in Monterey County.

James Meadows Tract, also known as Rancho Palo Escrito, was a 4,592 acres (1,858 ha) Mexican land grant in present-day Monterey County, California given on January 27, 1840, by Governor Juan Alvarado to Carmel Mission civil administrator, José Antonio Romero. The land was later sold by Monterey businessman Thomas O. Larkin to English-born James Meadows (1817–1902) in 1848. The grant extended along the Carmel River and Carmel Valley, bounded by Rancho Cañada de la Segunda to the west, Rancho Los Laureles to the east, and Garland Ranch Regional Park to the south. Meadows received the legal land patent on August 9, 1866, that became known as the Meadows Tract for 4,591.71 acres (1,858.20 ha).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">José Manuel Boronda</span> California rancher

José Manuel Boronda, was the first ranchero settler in Carmel Valley, California. He and Vicente Blas Martínez were given the 6,625-acre (26.81 km2) Rancho Los Laureles Mexican land grant in present-day Monterey County, California on September 20, 1839, by Governor Juan Alvarado. Many of the Boronda historic sites still exist, including the Los Laureles Lodge, Carmel Valley Village, Road-Boronda Road Eucalyptus Tree Row, Manuel Boronda Adobe (1817), José Manuel Boronda Adobe, and the Jose Eusebio Boronda Adobe.

References

  1. ↑ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Seavey, Kent L. (1978-01-04). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: Rancho Las Palmas". National Park Service. Retrieved 2013-11-29.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. ↑ Sanchez, Nellie Van de Grift (1932). California and Californians. Lewis Publishing Company. p. 203. Retrieved 2023-02-02.
  4. 1 2 3 "Our Story". Chateau Coralini. Salinas, California. Retrieved 2023-02-02.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Illustrated fraternal directory". Bancroft Co. San Francisco, California. 1889. p. 100. Retrieved 2023-02-02.
  6. ↑ "National Register of Historic Places in Monterey County". NoeHill Travels in California. Retrieved 2023-02-01.
  7. 1 2 3 4 "'Las Palmas' Rancho is County Showplace Built by Man Who Developed Buena Vista". The Californian. Salinas, California. September 28, 1946. p. 3. Retrieved 2023-02-02.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Salinas Pioneer Passes Away. Was One of the Leading Men of the Valley". Monterey American. Monterey, California. September 10, 1913. p. 3. Retrieved 2023-02-01.
  9. 1 2 3 "Historical Information for Hiram Corey". FamilySearch . Retrieved 2023-02-02.
  10. 1 2 Guinn, J. M. (1910). History and biographical record of Monterey and San Benito Counties (PDF). pp. 369–371. Retrieved 2023-02-02.{{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  11. 1 2 3 Edwina Copeland. "Las Palmas Ranch". Monterey County Historical Society. Monterey, California. Retrieved 2023-02-02.
  12. ↑ "Corey House on sales block". The Californian. Salinas, California. October 19, 2012. p. 26. Retrieved 2023-02-02.
  13. ↑ "Chateau Coralini Retreat & Spa" (PDF). Braunco. Retrieved 2023-02-02.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.