 He and his family joined the goldseekers in California, finally settling on San Justo Rancho in the early 1850s.When the Rancho was sold in 1855, Wilcox purchased approximately ten acres of land from General José Castro, and erected this house on the west side of the Alameda (which is the route of El Camino Real).In the context of San Juan Bautista, where architectural styles run the gamut from the Spanish period Mission, through Mexican period adobes, through most of the major nineteenth century eclectic revival styles, to the styles of the first two decades of the twentieth century, the Benjamin Wilcox House is the only Gothic Revival Style structure.