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Identifier	clloy_111
Title	Mission San Fernando, Californi [sic]
Creator	Unknown
Date Published	circa 1925
Subject (Topic)	Spanish mission buildings--California--San Fernando; Religious Architecture--California--San Fernando;
Subject (Name)	San Fernando, Rey de Espana (Mission : San Fernando, Calif.);
Subject (Place)	San Fernando (Calif.);
Type	image
Form/Genre	Postcards
Physical Description	1 postcard : Color ; 9 x 14 cm.
Institution	Department of Archives and Special Collections, Loyola Marymount University Library.
Collection Identifier	http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt9489r2nz
Country of Creation	US
Copyright Status	public domain
Copyright Statement	http://library.lmu.edu/dlp/copyright.htm
Publisher	Pacific Novelty Co.
Place of Publication	San Francisco & Los Angeles
Language	eng
Description	Angled view of the long, two-storey Convento building of Mission San Fernando, with its row of 21 arches. In the foreground there is a dirt road with a car on it.
Historical Background	Mission San Fernando, Rey De Espana was founded in 1787 by Father Lasuen as a stopping place between Missions San Gabriel and San Buenaventura. Due to its placement along the route to the fast-growing community of Los Angeles, the mission received so many visitors that the padres had to build several additions to the hospice in the Convento wing, with the result that it became known as the "long building" of El Camino Real. The mission was badly damaged during the 1818 earthquake. The church was repaired, but after secularization, the roof tiles were removed for use on later buildings, leaving the adobe walls exposed and hastening their deterioration. Further damage occurred when gold was discovered near the mission in 1842, and prospectors dug up parts of the mission's floors in the search for buried treasure. In the years that followed, the church and hospice were used as a warehouse and stable, while the quadrangle became a hog farm. In 1863, the mission became the property of the Catholic Church once more, but it did not become a working church again until 1923. Various attempts had been made to restore the buildings, but restoration did not begin in earnest until the 1940s when the Hearst Foundation donated a large sum of money. The buildings were badly damaged again in the 1971 earthquake, and the subsequent repairs were completed in 1974.
Publisher's Identifier	Series number: 5316
Metacollection Identifier	http://digitalcollections.lmu.edu
Source	Werner Von Boltenstern Postcard Collection