If this house could talk, it would tell stories about a Latina businesswoman, humanitarian, and landowner named Juana Briones who built a rare earthen-walled house in the 1840s in what later became Palo Alto. Now that touchstone of the Rancho period is threatened with demolition.

Friends of the Juana Briones' House is a coalition of historians, architects, neighbors, educators, business and community leaders committed to advocating for the preservation of this treasure.