This building contains the remaining portions of an adobe house built by Francisco Salvador Lugo and his son Antonio María Lugo, prominent early landholders in California. Antonio María Lugo served as the Alcalde of Los Angeles, and the building was completed by 1810. Henry Tifft Gage acquired the property in 1880 and lived here from 1883 until 1924. Gage served as the Governor of California from 1899 to 1903.