Rancho Deluxe

The first time Pamela Seager visited the run-down Rancho los Alamitos, she noticed its potential. “There was an integrity,” she says. “It wasn’t tricked up. It had all the good bone structure, but it needed to be polished.” She and her team have spent more than a quarter century polishing this gem that spans 1,500 years of California history. Once a trading village of the Gabrielino-Tongva people and then a part of California’s largest Spanish land grant, the site was donated to