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Building History

Padre Fermin Francisco de Lasuen (1736-1803) established the Mission San Jose, the fourteenth of twenty-one missions in Alta California, on 06/11/1797. The original adobe church was erected in 1809; this building had its nave spanned by redwood beams.

Building Notes

The Historic American Buildings Survey measured, drew and photographed Mission San Jose Guadalupe: HABS CA--1132; HABS CAL, 1-Fremo, 1-22ph/17pg.

Church officials collected money to make an adobe replica of the 1830s Mission San Jose Church in 1982-1985.

Demolished; a large earthquake in 1868 toppled the unreinforced masonry church. Only the western portion of the mission complex, the convent, remained. The Museum of the San Jose Mission was located in this wing during the 20th century. Administrators had the museum's structure seismically improved in 2001-2002.