Antonio Peralta constructed the Antonio Maria Peralta House in 1870 in Oakland, CA. The property is a part of the Peralta Historical Park, the location of the first European settlement after the establishment of Mission San Jose. The focal point of Peralta Historical Park is the Peralta House, an 1870 Italianate Victorian farmhouse. The Peralta House was designed with classic window frames, traditional cornice brackets, and a one-story porch supported by turned columns of the Doric order. The house is now painted off-white but was originally painted yellow.

The land where the house sits was a part of the 44,800 acre Spanish land grant made to Sergeant Luís María Peralta (1759-1851) by the last Spanish governor, Don Pablo Vicente de Sol, in 1820 in recognition of his forty years of military service to the Spanish King. Although Luis never lived on the property, his four sons built homes, took care of the family's livestock and raised their families on the rancho Luis named Rancho San Antonio. Rancho San Antonio extended from present-day Albany to the northern part of San Leandro, and now includes seven modern cities.