Casa De San Pedro

Casa De San Pedro also called Casa De San Pedro Hide House and Casa de is was of the oldest commercial structure on the San Pedro Bay. It site was designated a California Historic Landmark (No. 235) on June 6, 1978. The site is now near Meyler and Quartermaster Roads in San Pedro. [1]

Casa De San Pedro
Casa De San Pedro Hide House Marker
Location	Fort MacArthur Ca in San Pedro
Coordinates	33°43′14″N 118°17′7″W
Built	1823
California Historical Landmark
Designated	June 6, 1978
Reference no.	920
Location of Casa De San Pedro in the Los Angeles metropolitan area

McCulloch and Hartnell built the structure to store cattle hides purchased from the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel and San Fernando mission. In 1829 the Casa was sold to Mission San Gabriel. In 1834 the Casa was sold to Abel Stearns. Stearns established a stagecoach route connecting San Pedro Bay with the Pueblo de Los Ángeles. Casa De San Pedro is described as an adobe hide house is the book Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana published in 1840. Casa De San Pedro was part of the began of the Port of Los Angeles.

In 1846 the Mexican governor of Alta California, Pio Pico, directed that a 500 varas square of land facing onto San Pedro Bay be set aside as a government reservation, approximately 44.25 acres. [2]

Casa De San Pedro ruins in 1900

In 1904 surveyor H.H. Burton inspected Casa De San Pedro for the San Pedro Government Reservation. Burton reported that the Casa was a "ruins of adobe buildings". Legal battles over this Casa land that was a private and inside of land that would became Fort MacArthur. The legal battle ended in 1922.[3]

Fort MacArthur is a former United States Army installation in San Pedro, Los Angeles, California (now the port community of Los Angeles). A small section remains in military use by the United States Air Force as a housing and administrative annex of Los Angeles Air Force Base. The fort is named after Lieutenant General Arthur MacArthur. His son, Douglas MacArthur, would later command American forces in the Pacific during World War II.

The plaque making the place of Casa De San Pedro is near the Chaldean's play yard in a Fort MacArthur park. The plaque read:

The first known commercial structure on the shore of San Pedro Bay was built here in 1823 by the trading firm of McCulloch & Hartnell to store cattle hides from the San Gabriel and San Fernando Missions. Richard Henry Dana described this adobe hide house in Two Years Before The Mast. Thus began the development of the Port of Los Angeles.

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