Beacon Artworks and Riccoboni studio is located in Old Town San Diego State Historic Park. The park recreates life in the Mexican and early American periods of 1821 to 1872. Close by are five original adobes in the complex, which includes shops, restaurants, Beacon Artworks Gallery and a museum. La Casa de Estudillo is a mansion built around a garden courtyard. La Casa de Machado y Stewart is full of artifacts that reflect ordinary life of the period. Other historic buildings include a schoolhouse, a blacksmith shop, San Diego's first newspaper office, and a stable with a carriage collection. (San Diego became California's first Spanish settlement when a mission and fort were established in 1769.) Old Town San Diego is considered the birthplace of California. San Diego is the site of the first permanent Spanish settlement in California. It was here in 1769, that Father Junipero Serra came to establish the very first mission in a chain of 21 missions that were to be the cornerstone of California's colonization. Father Serra's mission and Presidio were built on a hillside overlooking what is currently known as Old Town San Diego. At the base of the hill in 1820's, a small Mexican community of adobe buildings was formed and by 1835 had attained the status of El Pueblo de San Diego. In 1846, a U.S. Navy Lieutenant and a Marine Lieutenant, raised the American flag in the Old Town San Diego Plaza.

In 1968, the State of California Department of Parks and Recreation established Old Town State Historic Park to preserve the rich heritage that characterized San Diego during the 1821 to 1872 period. The park includes a main plaza, exhibits, museums and living history demonstrations. Within the park work some of San Diego's finest artisans. Here you can see some of their shops and studios in The Plaza del Padaso.

The earliest indications of people living in San Diego date back 9,000 years. They called themselves Kumeyaay. When the Spaniards arrived, they used the word Diegueño to identify the Indians associated with the Mission. In 1542 explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo reported that the native indians, "were good natured and an attractive people." With the arrival of the Spanish settlements in 1769, many Kumeyaay retreated to the hills.

San Diego Paintings by RD Riccoboni, contains eighty collector color pictures by California artist RD Riccoboni of San Diego California bound in a catalog book of paintings from the Beacon Artworks Gallery - Riccoboni Studio collection. Features Riccoboni paintings created during 2005 through 2007, of historic colonial, Victorian through modern architecture. The birthplace of California - Old Town San Diego is featured here as well as the first mission and colonial building in the western United States, Mission San Diego De Alcala. Visit the Spanish Colonial fantasy of Balboa Park, historic Gaslamp district, Little Italy, Point Loma, La Jolla and Coronado Island. This book takes you on a colorful tour through art of America's finest city. San Diego paintings of RD Riccoboni, Collectors Edition, makes a unique gift or keepsake.

Join the "Rogue Party of Six" by RD Riccoboni for a festive time in the park. This lively cast of charecters are from Old Town San Diego. You can see them when you visit Plaza Del Pasasdo in Old Town San Diego State Historic Park.

From the Series of Old Town - San Diego Collection of California paintings by Riccoboni

Meet our genteel clientel and staff. These fellow lovers of Fine Art and San Diego history will take you on an interprative tour of Old Town. Here seen at Beacon Artworks Gallery.

Beacon Artworks Gallery, located in the Plaza del Pasado Shops, One of fun places to see in San Diego California and your source for San Diego Art.

How did Beacon Artworks Open a gallery
In Old Town - San Diego - State Historic Park?

Did you know a major percentage of gallery sales in Plaza Del Pasado is paid to the State of California? This does not include sales tax.
These revenues help restore historic the buildings, create the fun experience you see today.

Beacon Artworks Mission, Vision and Philosophy of giving back to the community is best served by our location at Plaza Del Pasado which provides a vehicle for community charitable outreach.
Our sales structure and your purchase automatically contributes in preserving California's rich heritage, educate persons about the Birthplace of California.

Beacon Artworks Corporation and founder, artist RD Riccoboni, one of America's favorite artists, opened Beacon Artworks Gallery, in 2007.

We are grateful to our generous landlord DNC, our customers and clients from all over the world and here at home who love San Diego and California as much as we do!

Thank you for your purchases here on the Plaza, and helping preserve
Old Town San Diego, The Birthplace of California!

We have an amazing landlord, and business is great!

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