The Mission Revival was pervasive in turn-of-the-century California. It offered the proper style for hotels, schools, railroad stations, and other public buildi

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The California missions are the cathedrals of the New World. They were built under the direction of the adventurous padres who braved the hardships of the New W

“Nothing defines California and our nation’s heritage as significantly or emotionally,” says the California Mission Foundation, “as do the twenty-one mi