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Third home of Don Ygnácio Palomares. Built in 1850, it stands
at the corner of Cucamonga Road and Orange Grove, North Pomona.

The house seems originally to have been of the L-plan
type, but the rooms of the rear wing have been destroyed.
It was built about 1840.
Both of these places, which are absolutely unique among
nearness to one another,
ranch houses for their neighborly
are now private residences, appreciated and well-cared for
by Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Nichols, the owners.
The Casa Palomares on the Camino Real
At the corner of the present Cucamonga Road and Orange
Grove, in North Pomona, stands the third home of Don
Ygnácio Palomares, probably built before 1850. Don Ygnácio
gave the old home (on Park Avenue) to his son Francisco
when he moved to this newer place on the road to Chino and
San Bernardino. Of it he says in his will,
. . . the other house which is on the Camino Real of the same
Ranch (San José de Arriba) and the remaining property shall
be respected as belonging to my wife.
Don Ygnácio died there November 2, 1864.
Today untended rose vines and wisteria clamber over the
walls and the sagging roof of the old corredor. There used