It is built around an adobe house constructed in 1854 by Francisco Alviso on the Rancho Santa Rita Mexican Land Grant.

[2][3] Construction of the park was initially planned to begin in 2000, but the city could not secure funding until 2007, when the $4.4 million project was finally begun.

During the railroad boom period of the 1860s, Rancho Santa Rita was sub divided into fifteen smaller tracts of varying sizes.

[5] The Briggs company sold the farm and adobe in 1966 to the Great Southwest Corporation, who wanted to build an amusement park on the site, but this was hotly contested by local residents and the plan was scrapped.

Most of the land was then converted to individual housing lots, but the adobe, which had been declared a California Historical Landmark in 1954, and a few acres were donated in 1993 to the city of Pleasanton.

[8] The 2000 Master Plan for the Alviso Adobe Community Park[9] included a 39-foot replica of the white grain silo on the east side of the re-created Meadowlark Dairy.

Objections from the local residents caused the planners and the city to revise the master plan and eliminate the silo from the park.