 He built an adobe residence near the center of this ranch, known as Rancho San Pedro, in the San Pedro Valley (now Linda Mar Valley) at the site of the abandoned Mission Outpost "San Pedro y San Pablo".It is widely speculated that he reused some of the bricks from the Outpost to construct the Adobe, which he began in 1842 and completed in 1846.Edward Kirkpatrick purchased the property in 1871 and remodeled the Adobe extensively during the late 1880s, enlarging it to twenty rooms.