Ysidro Reyes

Ysidro Reyes (1813–1863) was a Los Angeles–based business man and grandson of Juan Francisco Reyes, the first alcalde (mayor) of the Los Angeles pueblo.

Life Reyes acquired half of a Mexican Land Grant called the Rancho Boca de Santa Monica, splitting with Francisco Marquez many acres of land located in present-day Santa Monica Canyon, the Pacific Palisades, and parts of Topanga Canyon.

Ysidro Reyes lived on the Rancho Boca de Santa Monica, in the Santa Monica Canyon, working a large tract of land with his father that extended to what is now Hollywood. Sketches of adobe dwelling exist in the collection of the UCLA Library. A memorial plaque sits in a boulder on Pampas Ricas Blvd. commemorating the adobe house, dedicated in the 1950s.

Death Ysidro Reyes died in 1863. Reyes left his portion of Rancho Boca de Santa Monica to his widow, Maria Antonia Villa, who sold it to developer and railroad magnate Robert Symington Baker in 1875. Baker developed his portion of Rancho Boca de Santa Monica into the City of Santa Monica.