Casa Covarrubias

Casa Covarrubias is an L-shaped adobe structure built in eighteen seventeen by Chumash Indian labor for Don Domingo Carrillo. You can identify it by its thick, light-colored walls and the prominent exterior buttresses added during a mid-twentieth-century restoration. While it bears the name of José María Covarrubias, a French immigrant who married into the Carrillo family in the eighteen thirties, the house originally served as a private residence for Domingo Carrillo and his wife, Concepción Pico Carrillo, the sister of the last Mexican governor of California.