A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1925 (Mediterranean Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1944.
From the record
“Casa del Herrero is a historic house museum and botanical garden located in Montecito near Santa Barbara, California. It was designed by George Washington Smith, and is considered one of the finest examples of Spanish Colonial Revival architecture in the United States.”
Wikipedia article Casa del Herrero, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 38 National Register listings published here for Santa Barbara County · listed in 1987 · category: Building · built in 1925, Mediterranean Revival architecture, by Lutah Maria Riggs, George Washington Smith · a National Historic Landmark.
Architect. Lutah Maria Riggs, George Washington Smith
National Register reference number.87000002- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Then and now
1944 to 1995
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
51 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19441995
Fires near this property
46 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Steedman Estate
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,291 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 were recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
20
Equipment and vehicle use
8
Smoking
4
Debris and open burning
3
Arson/incendiarism
3
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Recreation and ceremony
2
Natural
1
Fireworks
1
Other causes
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
6 workings within 5 miles of Steedman Estate: 3 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Magnesite, Mercury, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Montecito, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2000 and 2026: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 1 flood.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
California Highway Patrol reported flash flooding on Highway 101 at Sheffield. Per officer reports, six inches of water was observed across the southbound lanes of Highway 101.
United States Geological Survey topographic
sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then
testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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