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Building History

This Mission was founded 11/01/1776. A long narrow adobe church has stood on the site from 1777 to the present.

Building Notes

The San Juan Capistrano site was recorded on the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and was given the number HABS CA-331, HABS CAL, 30-SAJUC, 1-1dr/2ph/2/pq/fr.

Alteration

A bell tower was added to the first adobe church in 1791; long used as a storehouse, the significance of this small church was re-discovered by Father John O'Sullivan in 1922; renovations began soon thereafter, as this was the only mission in which the Franciscan Father Junipero Serra (1713-1784) actually held services.

PCAD id: 3351