Mission Dolores

320 Dolores St., San Francisco, California. County/parish: San Francisco.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places March 16, 1972. NRIS 72000251.

1 contributing building.

Also known as:

• Mission San Francisco de Asis

From Wikipedia:

Mission San Francisco de Asís

The Mission San Francisco de Asís (Spanish: Misión San Francisco de Asís), also known as Mission Dolores, is a historic Catholic church complex in San Francisco, California. Operated by the Archdiocese of San Francisco, the complex was founded in the 18th century by Spanish Catholic missionaries. The mission contains two historic buildings:

• The Mission Dolores adobe chapel was completed in 1791. It is the oldest structure in San Francisco.
• The Mission Dolores Basilica was constructed in 1918. It was designated a minor basilica by Pope Pius XII in 1952.

Located in the Mission District, the mission was founded on October 9, 1776, by Frs Francisco Palóu and Pedro Benito Cambón. The Franciscan Order sent the two priests to the then Spanish Province of Alta California to bring in Spanish settlers and evangelize the indigenous Ohlone people. The Ohlone provided most the labor which built the adobe chapel. The early 20th-century Mission Dolores Basilica replaced a brick parish church built in 1876 that was destroyed in the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123861214