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THE DALLIDET ADOBE 1185 Pacific Street, San Luis Obispo
 History and Description:

Among the many people that helped make San Luis Obispo a town in 1856 was a
Frenchman named Pierre Hyppolite Dallidet.  Dallidet arrived in 1853 and planted
a vineyard, a beautiful garden, and soon married the daughter of Gabriel
Salazar.  He then built an adobe house on San Luis Creek and raised a family of
four sons and three daughters.  It is believed that he built an adobe because
his wife had lived in an adobe since birth.

The youngest son, Paul Dallidet, lived in the house until his death in 1958, and
deeded the property to the San Luis Obispo Historical Society in 1953, one
hundred years after his father arrived here.

The house was all adobe when it was first built, but some years later, the
wooden section was added on by Mr. Dallidet because of his fast expanding
family. The adobe has walls that are almost two feet thick and a loft above for
sleeping.  This loft was reached by a staircase near the front door.  This has
since been removed.  The wooden section is reached by a narrow stairway which
goes down to a lower level. Here, Dallidet added three badly needed bedrooms, a
dining room, and a kitchen.  The fireplace and chimney in this section were made
of brick, rather than adobe, as in the adobe section.

The adobe is now State Historical Landmark No. 720.

Sources:
The Story of San Luis Obispo County. W. W. Robinson 
The Dallidet Adobe. San Luis Obispo Historical Society


Additional Comments:
Extracted from

Discovering San Luis Obispo County
by
Carleton M. Winslow


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