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18th century Spanish mission in San Francisco, California, U.s.

Mission San Francisco de Asís

The original adobe Mission San Francisco de Asís (on the left) and the Mission Dolores Basilica (on the correct)[1]
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Location	320 Dolores Street San Francisco, California 94114
Coordinates	37°45′51.8″N 122°25′37.three″W  /  37.764389°N 122.427028°W  / 37.764389; -122.427028 Coordinates: 37°45′51.8″N 122°25′37.3″W  /  37.764389°N 122.427028°W  / 37.764389; -122.427028
Name as founded	La Misión de Nuestro Padre San Francisco[2]
English language translation	The Mission of Our Male parent Saint Francis of Assisi
Patron	Saint Francis of Assisi[3]
Nickname(s)	"Mission Dolores"[iv] [5]
Founding priest(s)	Francisco Palóu; Junípero Serra
Founding Order	Sixth[3]
Military district	Fourth[6]
Native tribe(s) Spanish name(s)	Ohlone Costeño
Native identify name(s)	Chutchui [7]
Baptisms	6,898[8]
Marriages	2,043
Burials	11,000= 5,000 (Europeans/Americans), 6,000 (Indians)[8]
Secularized	1834[3]
Returned to the Church building	1857[iii]
Governing torso	Roman Cosmic Archdiocese of San Francisco
Electric current utilize	Parish Church building
U.Due south. National Register of Celebrated Places
Designated	1972
Reference no.	#72000251
California Historical Landmark
Official proper noun: Site of original Mission Dolores chapel and Dolores Lagoon[nine]
Reference no.	327-one
San Francisco Designated Landmark
Designated	Apr 11, 1968[10]
Reference no.	1
Website
http://world wide web.missiondolores.org

Mission San Francisco de Asís (Castilian: Misión San Francisco de Asís), usually known as Mission Dolores, is a Spanish Californian mission and the oldest surviving structure in San Francisco, located in the Mission Commune. Information technology was founded on October 9, 1776, by Padre Francisco Palóu (a companion of Junípero Serra) and co-founder Fray Pedro Benito Cambón, who had been charged with bringing Spanish settlers to Alta California and with evangelizing the local indigenous Californians, the Ohlone. Next to the old mission is the newer and larger Mission Dolores Basilica, built in 1918 in an elaborate California Churrigueresque mode.

History [edit]

The settlement was named for St. Francis of Assisi, the founder of the Franciscan Society, but was as well commonly known as "Mission Dolores" owing to the presence of a nearby creek named Approach de Nuestra Señora de los Dolores, meaning "Our Lady of Sorrows Creek."^[xi] During the expedition of Juan Bautista de Anza, this site was identified by Pedro Font equally the about suitable site for a mission in the San Francisco surface area.^[12]

The original Mission was a minor construction defended on Oct nine, 1776, later on the required church building documents arrived. It was located near what is today the intersection of Army camp and Albion Streets (according to some sources),^[13] about a block-and-a-one-half eastward of the surviving adobe Mission building, and on the shores of the now filled Laguna de Los Dolores. ^[4] A historical marking at that location depicts this lake, but whether it ever actually existed is a matter of some dispute. (Creek geologists Janet Sowers and Christopher Richard propose that the legendary lake is the result of misunderstandings of Juan Bautista de Anza's 1776 writings. Co-ordinate to their 2011 hydrological map, there were no lakes in the expanse, only creeks.)^[xiv]

The present Mission church, nearly what is now the intersection of Dolores and 16th Streets, was dedicated in 1791. At the fourth dimension of dedication, a landscape painted by native labor adorned the focal wall of the chapel. The Mission was constructed of adobe and was part of a complex of buildings used for housing, agricultural, and manufacturing enterprises (run into architecture of the California missions). Though nearly of the Mission complex, including the quadrangle and Convento, has either been altered or demolished outright during the intervening years, the façade of the Mission chapel has remained relatively unchanged since its construction in 1782–1791.^{[ citation needed ]}

According to Mission historian Blood brother Guire Cleary, the early 19th century saw the greatest period of action at San Francisco de Asís:

At its elevation in 1810–1820, the average Indian population at Pueblo Dolores was nearly 1,100 people. The California missions were not only houses of worship, but they were agricultural communities, manufacturers of all sorts of products, hotels, ranches, hospitals, schools, and the centers of the largest communities in the land. In 1810 the Mission owned 11,000 sheep, 11,000 cows, and thousands of horses, goats, pigs, and mules. Its ranching and farming operations extended equally far south equally San Mateo and due east to Alameda. Horses were corralled on Potrero Hill, and the milking sheds for the cows were located along Dolores Creek at what is today Mission High Schoolhouse. Xx looms were kept in operation to process wool into textile. The circumference of the Mission'south holdings was said to accept been nigh 125 miles.^[fifteen]

The Mission chapel, along with "Father Serra'southward Church" at Mission San Juan Capistrano, is ane of only two surviving buildings where Junípero Serra is known to have officiated (although "Dolores" was withal under construction at the time of Serra's visit). In 1817, Mission San Rafael Arcángel was established equally an Asistencia to human action as a hospital for the Mission, though it would afterwards be granted full mission status in 1822. The Mexican State of war of Independence (1810–1821) strained relations between the Mexican government and the California missions. Supplies were scant, and the Indians who worked at the missions continued to suffer terrible losses from disease and cultural disruption (more than 5,000 Indians are idea to have been buried in the cemetery adjacent to the Mission). In 1834, the Mexican government enacted secularization laws whereby most church backdrop were sold or granted to private owners. In applied terms, this meant that the missions would hold championship just to the churches, the residences of the priests, and a minor amount of state surrounding the church building for use as gardens. In the period that followed, Mission Dolores vicious on very hard times. By 1842, only eight Christian Indians were living at the Mission.^[15]

Mission San Francisco de Asís around 1910. The wooden addition has been removed and a portion of the brick Gothic Revival church is visible at right. The big stone church was severely damaged in the 1906 earthquake.^[1]

The California Gold Rush brought renewed activity to the Mission Dolores area. In the 1850s, two plank roads were constructed from what is today downtown San Francisco to the Mission, and the entire area became a popular resort and entertainment district.^[xvi] Some of the Mission properties were sold or leased for utilise every bit saloons and gambling halls. Racetracks were synthetic, and fights between bulls and bears were staged for crowds. The Mission complex likewise underwent alterations. Part of the Convento was converted to a 2-story wooden wing for use every bit a seminary and priests' quarters, while another section became the "Mansion House," a pop tavern and way station for travelers.^[17] By 1876, the Mansion Firm portion of the Convento had been razed and replaced with a large Gothic Revival brick church, designed to serve the growing population of immigrants who were now making the Mission expanse their home.^{[ citation needed ]}

During this menstruation, wood clapboard siding was applied to the original adobe chapel walls as both a cosmetic and a protective measure; the veneer was afterwards removed when the Mission was restored. During the 1906 San Francisco convulsion, the adjacent brick church was destroyed. Past contrast, the original adobe Mission, though damaged, remained in relatively good condition. However, the ensuing fire touched off by the convulsion reached near to the Mission's doorstep. To preclude the spread of flames, the Convent and School of Notre Dame across the street were dynamited past firefighters; still, nearly all the blocks due east of Dolores Street and north of 20th street were consumed by flames. In 1913, construction began on a new church (now known as the Mission Dolores Basilica) adjacent to the Mission, which was completed in 1918. This structure was farther remodeled in 1926 with churrigueresque ornamentation inspired by the Panama-California Exposition held in San Diego'south Balboa Park. A sensitive restoration of the original adobe Mission was undertaken in 1917 by builder Willis Polk. In 1952, San Francisco Archbishop John J. Mitty announced that Pope Pius XII had elevated Mission Dolores to the status of a Minor Basilica. This was the offset designation of a basilica west of the Mississippi and the fifth basilica named in the United States. Today, the larger, newer church is called "Mission Dolores Basilica" while the original adobe structure retains the name of Mission Dolores.^{[ commendation needed ]}

The interior of the Mission chapeolores

Other celebrated designations [edit]

• San Francisco Historical Landmark #1 – Urban center & County of San Francisco^[eighteen]
• California Historical Landmark #327-one – site of original Mission Dolores chapel and Dolores Lagoon^[19]
• California Historical Landmark #393 – "The Hospice," an outpost of Mission Dolores founded in 1800 in San Mateo, California^[20]
• California Historical Landmark #784 – El Camino Existent (the northernmost indicate visited by Serra)^[21]

Art [edit]

Statue of Junípero Serra [edit]

A full-length portrait sculpture of Junípero Serra is on the property of the mission. The cast stone sculpture, by Arthur Putnam, was completed in 1909, bandage between 1916–1917, and installed in 1918 when the mission was remodeled. Funding for the slice came from D.J. McQuarry and it price $500 to cast. It is approximately H. six  ft. 6 in. The sculpture depicts Serra wearing a Franciscan friar'southward robe belted at the waist with a knotted rope and a rosary around his cervix. He looks downwardly, with his head bowed and optics downward. The sculpture is on a concrete base of operations. Information technology is one of a serial of emblematic figures commissioned by the estate of E. W. Scripps to draw California history. In 1993 it was examined by the Smithsonian Institution's Save Outdoor Sculpture! program. The program determined that the sculpture was well maintained.^[22]

Succession of rectors, pastors, and administrators [edit]

• Founders: Francisco Palóu, O.F.1000., Pedro Benito Cambón, O.F.K. – June 27, 1776
• Francisco Palóu, O.F.M. – June 27, 1776 – 1784
• Eugene O'Connell – 1854^[23]
• Richard Carroll – 1854–1860
• John J. Prendergast – 1860–1867
• Thomas Cushing – 1867–1875
• Richard P. Brennan – 1875–1904
• Patrick Cummins – 1904–1916
• John Due west. Sullivan – 1916–1939
• The Well-nigh Rev. Thomas A. Connolly – 1939–1948 (Showtime Auxiliary Bishop, First Rector)^[24]
• The Virtually Rev. James T. O'Dowd – 1948–1950 (Rector)
• The Most Rev. Merlin Guilfoyle, VG – 1950–1969 (Rector)
• The Near Rev. Norman F. McFarland – 1970–1974 (Last Rector)^[25]
• The Rev. Msgr. Richard Southward. Knapp – 1974, 1974–1983 (Served first as Administrator, then Pastor)
• The Rev. Msgr. John J. O'Connor – 1983–1997
• The Rev. Msgr. Maurice McCormick – 1997–2003
• The Most Rev. William J. Justice – 2003–2007 (Became a bishop later on he left Mission Dolores)
• The Rev. Arturo Albano – 2007– 2015
• The Reverend Francis Mark P Garbo - 2015–Nowadays

Meet besides [edit]

• Spanish missions in California
• List of Spanish missions in California
• San Pedro y San Pablo Asistencia
• Listing of San Francisco Designated Landmarks
• USNS Mission Dolores (AO-115) – a Mission Buenaventura Class armada oiler built during World War II.
• USNS Mission San Francisco (AO-123) – a Mission Buenaventura Class armada oiler built during World War II.

Notes [edit]

1. ^ ^{a b} Krell, p. 148
2. ^ Worden / Leffingwell, p. 149
3. ^ ^{a b c d} Krell, p. 139
4. ^ ^{a b} Young, p. 117
5. ^ Yenne, p. 64
6. ^ Forbes, p. 202
7. ^ Ruscin, p. 195
8. ^ ^{a b} Krell, p. 315: every bit of December 31, 1832; information adapted from Engelhardt'due south Missions and Missionaries of California.
9. ^ California Historical Marker is located on Camp and Albion Streets
10. ^ "City of San Francisco Designated Landmarks". Urban center of San Francisco. Archived from the original on 2014-03-25. Retrieved 2012-11-23 .
11. ^ Olmsted, Nancy (1986). Vanished Waters: A History of San Francisco's Mission Bay. San Francisco: Mission Creek Salvation. ISBN0961149213.
12. ^ Zephyrin Engelhardt (1912). The Missions and Missionaries of California, Book Ii: Upper California. p. 181.
13. ^ Kenneth Robert Zinns, The Urban Tradition Patterns of Building in San Francisco'due south Inner Mission (Berkeley: the University of California Dept. of Architecture, 1984), six; repeated in e.g. Alastair Worden and Randy Leffingwell, California Missions & Presidios (Beverly MA: Voyageur Printing), 173; ISBN 1610603648
14. ^ Amy Standen (2011-10-29). "New H2o Map Washes Away An Urban Legend". NPR. Retrieved 2012-01-02 .
15. ^ ^{a b} Cleary
16. ^ Johnson, p. 129
17. ^ Johnson, p. 130
18. ^ deSign, Ted Whipple / incite. "San Francisco Landmarks". www.friendsof1800.org.
19. ^ California, California State Parks, State of. "San Francisco". CA State Parks.
20. ^ California, California Land Parks, State of. "San Mateo". CA State Parks.
21. ^ California, California State Parks, Country of. "San Francisco". CA State Parks.
22. ^ "Begetter Junipero Serra, (sculpture)". Save Outdoor Sculpture!. Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved 13 May 2012.
23. ^ "San Francisco". www.newadvent.org. Apr 20, 2010. Retrieved 2010-04-20 .
24. ^ "Archbishop Thomas Arthur Connolly". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David Yard. Cheney. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
25. ^ "Thomas Arthur Connolly" (PDF). Diocese of Orange. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-01-xxx. Retrieved 2010-04-20 .

References [edit]

• Cleary, Blood brother Guire (January 31, 2003). "Mission Dolores Links San Francisco with its 18th Century Roots – Founded as La Mission San Francisco De Asis past Franciscans, it survived earthquake and burn down". Cosmic San Francisco. Archived from the original on February 5, 2007. Retrieved March 23, 2007.
• Forbes, Alexander (1839). California: A History of Upper and Lower California. Cornhill, London: Smith, Elder and Co.
• Johnson, Paul C. (supervising editor) (1964). The California Missions. Menlo Park, CA: Lane Volume Company. LCCN 64-22823.
• Krell, Dorothy, ed. (1979). The California Missions: A Pictorial History. Menlo Park, CA: Sunset Publishing Corporation. ISBN0-376-05172-8.
• Ruscin, Terry (1999). Mission Memoirs. San Diego, CA: Sunbelt Publications. ISBN0-932653-30-eight.
• Worden, Alastair; Leffingwell, Randy (2005). California Missions and Presidios. Voyageur Press. ISBN978-0896584921.
• Yenne, Beak (2004). The Missions of California. San Diego, CA: Thunder Bay Press. ISBNone-59223-319-8.
• Young, Stanley; Levick, Melba (1988). The Missions of California. San Francisco, CA: Relate Books. ISBN0-8118-3694-0.

Further reading [edit]

• Engelhardt, O. F. M. (1924). San Francisco or Mission Dolores. Chicago, IL: Franciscan Herald Press.
• Jones, Terry L.; Klar, Kathryn A. Klar, eds. (2007). California Prehistory: Colonization, Civilisation, and Complexity. Landham, MD: Altimira Press. ISBN978-0-7591-0872-1.
• Milliken, Randall (1995). A Time of Little Option: The Disintegration of Tribal Civilization in the San Francisco Bay Area 1769–1910. Menlo Park, CA: Ballena Press Publication. ISBN0-87919-132-5.
• Paddison, Joshua, ed. (1999). A World Transformed: Firsthand Accounts of California Earlier the Gold Rush . Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books. ISBNi-890771-xiii-ix.
• San Francisco Morn Call (June viii, 1889). "Mission Dolores – The Cemeteries At present Ready to Be Transferred to the City". San Francisco Morning Telephone call.
• Schafer, Mike; Welsh, Joe (1997). Classic American Streamliners. Osceola, Wisconsin: MotorBooks International. ISBN978-0-7603-0377-1.

External links [edit]

• Mission Dolores Basilica
• Mission Dolores via The Archdiocese of San Francisco
• Elevation & Site Layout sketches of the Mission proper
• Cosmic San Francisco – History of Mission Dolores
• San Francisco Public Library – Photographs of Mission Dolores
• Map of Mission Dolores and nearby water sources (from ShapingSF.org)
• California Celebrated Plaque mark the original site of Mission Dolores at Military camp and Albion Streets in SF
• Mission Dolores Neighborhood Association
• American Southwest, a National Park Service Discover Our Shared Heritage Travel Itinerary
• Early on History of the California Coast, a National Park Service Detect Our Shared Heritage Travel Itinerary
• List, drawings, and photographs at the Historic American Buildings Survey
• Footing plan of Mission Dolores, San Francisco, Ca at The Bancroft Library
• Howser, Huell (December 8, 2000). "California Missions (107)". California Missions. Chapman University Huell Howser Annal.

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