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San Francisco Trip 2005 - G
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Exterior of Mission Basilica
Interior of the Mission - oldest standing building in this region - built in 1700s as a, yes, mission for this area.
It's a narrow, long building, named after St. Francis of Assisi. From which San Francisco is named, of course.
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Plaque in floor of Mission
Altar area of Mission
Side altar
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Another floor plaque
Detail of wooden statue
Window of mission
The exterior walls are some four-foot-thick adobe
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We hover over the structure... no, actually a model.
Outside wall. Almost all materials are original.
We can peek at the actual adobe bricks through a plastic window.
Original roof truss, replaced after 1906 earthquake.
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Mission founded in 1775, built in 1788-1791
Mission Cemetary
A lot of these graves date to 1850s

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