Located on the southeast corner of Jacona Plaza, the house is a T-shaped, one-story, flat roofed adobe structure, once the central portion of a twenty-eight-room ranch house. The Roybal family and their descendants were prosperous ranchers and leaders in the village of Jacona. Patriarch Ignacio de Roybal y Torrado was a veteran of the reconquest of 1693. Roybal held numerous political offices in Santa Fe, including High Sheriff of the Inquisition in New Mexico. The National Park Service placed the house on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 for its architectural significance, and its relationship to the history and exploration of the region.
From Old Santa Fe Today, 5th edition by Audra Bellmore with photographs by Simone Frances.