MISSION DOLORES
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Mission with a single intact chapel with a baroque altarpiece and a Native American ethnobotanical garden.
Mission Dolores, or Misión San Francisco de Asís, is the oldest intact building in the city and the only intact chapel among the 21 missions established under the direction of Father Serra. Built in 1776, it has witnessed the entire history of San Francisco, including the California Gold Rush and the 1906 earthquake. It was its three meter thick walls that allowed it to withstand the disaster. The baroque altarpiece was imported from Mexico in 1780. Admire the ceiling painted in green, red and orange in the chapel. The basilica, in which the mass is held, does not date from the same period. It was built in 1918 and consecrated later, in 1952, by Pope Pius XII. The cemetery and gardens of Mission Dolores are located next to the old mission. The beautiful gardens have been restored and planted with trees, shrubs, flowers and native plants traditional to the 1791 era. The rose garden was donated by the Golden Gate Rose Society and is tended by society members on a weekly basis. The garden also contains a Native American ethnobotanical garden and examples of pre-settlement plants and artifacts. This is the resting place of some of California's earliest pioneers, the Ohlones and Miwoks, who are the local Native American peoples sadly extinct, and other notables such as Luis Antonio Arguello, the first governor of Mexico and Lieutenant Morega, a Spanish army officer and one of the city's founders.
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