La Casa Alvarado, Circa 1837. A rare architectural find in the Historic Hacienda District of Pomona. La Casa Alvarado hacienda is on the National Register of Historic Places and is a City of Pomona Historic Landmark. It is an original adobe rich in history with past residence of famous artist, writers and poets. This home is a rare survivor exemplifying the fully developed adobe frame ranch house in its final courtyard form. It embodies all the significant characteristics, showing the development of its form from the Mexican frontier period. This hacienda home is all the more rare as it retains much of its original fabric, including hand planed beams, shutters, doors and hardware. Surrounded with gracious deep verandahs this home is one of the original adobe haciendas in the State of California that is privately owned. On a, sightly under an acre lot, the grounds include many early plantings, including a rare 150-year-old orange tree from San Gabriel mission. With a devotion to preserving the original design, the home is in need of continued restoration. If you are preservation minded and wish to live in a piece of history, this is the property for you. Eligible for Mills Act.