The 2,296-square-foot, Dutch Colonial Revival home, now fully renovated, was built in 1894 as a getaway for the son Ulysses S. Grant, who called it 'Aloha Ranch.'
People living in La Mesa’s Serramar community overlooking Lemon Grove have a new neighbor.
Earlier this week, a large Tyrannosaurus Rex sculpture standing in a concrete block mysteriously appeared on an empty plot on Monte Drive, a cul-de-sac off Eastridge Drive.
The 10-acre parcel is slated for about 40 homes in a development called La Mesa Summit Estates.
A resident of the area, Alice Hobson, who said she’s lived in La Mesa for 80 years, sent a photocopy of a photograph of the fenced-in dinosaur to The San Diego Union-Tribune and asked for an investigation. She said she doesn’t know how it got there.