Mission San Miguel Arcangel : p. 46 MISSION SAN MIGUEL ARCANGEL HRONOLOGICALLY the sixteenth of the Missions, founded in 1797. It is a familiar sight still to passengers on the railway trains and automobiles on the State Highway. A view of its ruins bespeaks the fact that it must have been a thing of great architectural...
Mission San Buenaventura : p. 32 MISSION SAN BUENAVENTURA HIS, the ninth Mission, was founded in 1783 and is located along the main State Highway of California connecting Los Angeles with San Francisco. When San Buenaventura was builded no bells were available for it, and so wooden bells were substituted and the Missi...
The Old Missions Of California : p. 7 THE OLD MISSIONS OF CALIFORNIA HE very soul of romance was woven into the great adventure which brought the white man's civilization to the Western shores of America. And it is in California that the soul of this soul burst into flower. When the Franciscan Mission Fathers arrived at San Diego...
Mission San Fernando Rey De Espana : p. 48 MISSION SAN FERNANDO REY DE ESPANA OUNDED in 1797 and located some twenty miles north of the City of Los Angeles in the great San Fernando Valley this ruin is the most striking landmark in Southern California. Prent Buell, the eminent authority on Mission architecture, places San Fernando...
Mission Santa Barbara : p. 34 MISSION SANTA BARBARA OUNDED in 1786, doubtless Santa Barbara is the most famous and best known of all the Missions, as it is, at the same time the best preserved. It may be said to stand as it originally was except for the absence of the Indian homes that once surrounded it. Within its...
Mission Santa Ines : p. 52 MISSION SANTA INES OUNDED in 1804, nineteenth in the chain, located near the town of Los Olivos. This is one of the most beautiful of all Missions, and a great deal of restoration work has been done upon it mainly through the financial assistance of the Society of the Native Sons...
Mission Santa Clara De Assisi : p. 30 MISSION SANTA CLARA DE ASSISI IGHTH in line was founded in 1777. It is located in the lovely little city of Santa Clara adjacent to the better known metropolis of San Jose. By reason of fires and one or two rather destructive temblors, this once beautiful structure finally reached almost...
Mission San Gabriel Arcangel : p. 22 MISSION SAN GABRIEL ARCANGEL LD San Gabriel Mission with its picturesque bell tower and its exquisitely beautiful outer stairway, worn by the bare feet of the Indian neophytes, was founded in the year 1771 and is distant nine miles from the center of the City of Los Angeles. San Gabriel...
Mission San Diego De Alcala : p. 16 MISSION SAN DIEGO DE ALCALA HIS was the first of the Missions. It was founded in the year 1769 upon the arrival of the expedition headed by Don Gaspar de Portola by land up the peninsula of Lower California and the expedition that came by sea. Fray Junipero Serra, first Father President...
Mission San Antonio De Padua : p. 20 MISSION SAN ANTONIO DE PADUA HIS was in the days of its glory one of the most beautiful and most important of the Mission establishments. Perhaps because of the fact that it is away from the trend of travel, situated in a lonely but lovely valley in a circle of the Santa Lucia Mountains, it...
Mission La Purisima Concepcion : p. 36 MISSION LA PURISIMA CONCEPCION HE eleventh Mission, founded in 1787. It was originally a most beautiful thing from an architectural point of view erected on a lovely plain in the Valley of Lompoc near the present little city of that name. It was used mainly as a monastery to which...
Mission San Juan Bautista : p. 44 MISSION SAN JUAN BAUTISTA AMED in honor of St. John the Baptist and founded in 1797. So much of the original structure remains, and in such enduring beauty, that no traveler should miss a visit to it. It is located near the city of Hollister in San Benito County, not far from Santa Cruz...
Mission San Luis Obispo De Tolosa : p. 24 MISSION SAN LUIS OBISPO DE TOLOSA T is located in the present thriving city of San Luis Obispo and was founded in 1772. Like nearly all the other Mission establishments much of the structure has fallen from long years of neglect and the merciless onslaughts of the wind and rain. However...
Untitled : p. 58 INDEX "page" Introduction 7-15 Mission San Diego de Alcala 16-17 Mission San Carlos de Carmelo 18-19 Mission San Antonio de Padua 20-21 Mission San Gabriel Arcangel 22-23 Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa 24-25 Mission San Francisco de Assisi 26-27 Mission San Juan Capistrano 28-29 Missi...
Mission San Francisco De Solano : p. 56 MISSION SAN FRANCISCO DE SOLANO HE twenty-first and the last of the Missions was founded on America's Independence day, July 4, 1824. The ancient church still stands intact and is surrounded by many historic graves marked by gorgeous monuments. The Mission is located in the town of Sonom...
Mission San Jose De Guadalupe : p. 42 MISSION SAN JOSE DE GUADALUPE HE fourteenth Mission, founded in 1797. Only a little of the structure now remains but this little is available to sightseers in the Santa Clara Valley not far from the City of San Jose. It was here that the renowned Concepcion Arguello spent the last years...
Mission San Francisco De Assisi : p. 26 MISSION SAN FRANCISCO DE ASSISI OUNDED in 1776, the year of American Independence, this Mission, still standing in the heart of the great City of San Francisco was a familiar landmark when the great gold rush of the "Days of '49" was in full swing. Almost since its establishment it has been...
Mission Of San Juan Capistrano : p. 28 MISSION OF SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO HE seventh link in the great chain, was founded in 1776 and became in its time a mighty establishment. An eminent architect, the late Arthur B. Benton, who made a careful survey of San Juan Capistrano with a view to its possible full restoration estimated th...
Title Page : A GLIMPSE OF OLD CALIFORNIA MISSION MEMORIES AS DESCRIBED BY JOHN STEVEN MCGROARTY ILLUSTRATED BY FREDERICK V. CARPENTER WITH 22 PAGES OF ILLUSTRATIONS PUBLISHED BY Neuner Corporation LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA [1929] Front Cover Title Page NOTICE OF ATTRIBUTION Scanned , May 2005. John Bruno Hare...
End Page : p. 60 HERE ENDS THE STORY OF MISSION MEMORIES WHICH HAS BEEN WRITTEN AND COMPILED BY JOHN STEVEN McGROARTY--ILLUSTRATED BY FREDERICK V. CARPENTER--AND PRINTED AND BOUND BY THE NEUNER CORPORATION LOS ANGELES * CALIFORNIA IN THE YEAR MCMXXIX "Printed in U.S.A."
Mission San Carlos De Carmelo : p. 18 MISSION SAN CARLOS DE CARMELO HIS, the second of the Mission establishments, was founded in 1770 by Father Serra and became his headquarters during his life in California. His body was buried within the sanctuary of the church that was erected there during the last year of his life. Annual...
Mission Santa Cruz : p. 38 MISSION SANTA CRUZ HE Mission of the Holy Cross, not a trace of which now remains and the site of which is identified only by a mark, was founded in 1791 where the present city of the name now stands within the shadow of the great redwoods and at one end of the shining crescent of the Bay...
Mission La Soledad : p. 40 MISSION LA SOLEDAD HIRTEENTH in the great chain, founded in 1791. As its name implies it was a lonely and solitary place. Only a few of its walls now stand which the sightseer can gaze upon by a short journey of a mile or so from Soledad City located on the main California Highway. It w...
Mission San Luis Rey De Franca : p. 50 MISSION SAN LUIS REY DE FRANCA HIS was the eighteenth Mission and was founded in 1798. The Franciscan Fathers have returned to it and have done a great deal to restore it to its original proportions. It was builded entirely of adobe and, according to Buell, stands preeminent architecturally...
Mission San Rafael Arcangel : p. 54 MISSION SAN RAFAEL ARCANGEL HE twentieth Mission, founded in 1817 has been entirely annihilated by time and the neglectful years. It was one of the two establishments erected north of the Bay of San Francisco in a beautiful and fruitful section of the country. A Masonic Temple now stands...
