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Mission San Miguel Arcángel is a Spanish mission in San Miguel, San Lu...

Established on July 25, 1797, by the Franciscan order on a site chosen specifically due to the large number of Salinan Indians that inhabited the area, whom the Spanish priests wanted to evangelize. Title, date... More

Animals at La Purisima Mission, Lompoc, California

Mission La Purisima Concepción is one of 21 Spanish missions in California built as religious and military outposts by Spanish Catholics of the Franciscan Order between 1769 and 1823. Title, date, and keywords ... More

Mission Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California

Mission Santa Barbara is a Spanish mission founded by the Franciscan order near present-day Santa Barbara, California. The Mission grounds occupy a rise between the Pacific Ocean and the Santa Ynez Mountains. T... More

La Purisima Mission, Lompoc, California

Mission La Purisima Concepción is one of 21 Spanish missions in California built as religious and military outposts by Spanish Catholics of the Franciscan Order between 1769 and 1823. Title, date, and keywords ... More

Murals in the Mission District of San Francisco, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Mission Santa Barbara, also known as Santa Barbara Mission, is a Spani...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Mission San Juan Capistrano in southern California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The mission was founded on All Saints Day November 1, 1776, by Spanish Catholics of the Franciscan Order. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of C... More

Mission San Juan Capistrano in southern California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The mission was founded on All Saints Day November 1, 1776, by Spanish Catholics of the Franciscan Order. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of C... More

Sanctuary statue inside Santa Inés Mission in Santa Ynez, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. One of 21 Spanish missions in California built as religious and military outposts by Spanish Catholics of the Franciscan Order between 1769 and 1823. Cred... More

La Purisima Mission, Lompoc, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. One of 21 Spanish missions in California built as religious and military outposts by Spanish Catholics of the Franciscan Order between 1769 and 1823. Cred... More

Small grotto outside the chapel of San Elizario, founded in 1789, is o...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The church is an example of late adobe church architecture of the Spanish colonial period and today is the centerpiece of the town pl... More

Mission San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo, one of four Spanish missions ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Known as the "Queen of the Missions", this is the largest of the missions and was almost fully restored to its original design in the... More

Mission San Francisco de la Espada, better known today simply as "Miss...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded in 1690 by Spanish Franciscan friars as San Francisco de los Tejas near present-day Weches, Texas, this was the first mission... More

Stone archway at Mission San Francisco de la Espada, better known toda...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded in 1690 by Spanish Franciscan friars as San Francisco de los Tejas near present-day Weches, Texas, this was the first mission... More

Mission Senora de la Purisima Concepcion, Church, 807 Mission Road, Sa...

Significance: The church is architecturally significant as physical evidence of building practices and techniques used during the Spanish colonial period. It is the least altered of all the Texas mission church... More

Mission Senora de la Purisima Concepcion, Church, 807 Mission Road, Sa...

Significance: The church is architecturally significant as physical evidence of building practices and techniques used during the Spanish colonial period. It is the least altered of all the Texas mission church... More

Mission Senora de la Purisima Concepcion, Church, 807 Mission Road, Sa...

Significance: The church is architecturally significant as physical evidence of building practices and techniques used during the Spanish colonial period. It is the least altered of all the Texas mission church... More

St. Anthony's Chapel, Old Mission Vicinity, Festina, Winneshiek County...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-4 Survey number: HABS IA-30-12

Mission San Buenaventura, East Main Street & South Figueroa Street, Ve...

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Mission San Buenaventura, East Main Street & South Figueroa Street, Ve...

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Mission San Buenaventura, East Main Street & South Figueroa Street, Ve...

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Mission San Diego de Alcala, Misson Valley Road, San Diego, San Diego ...

Suggested address, Mission Valley Road, is not verifiable in documentation. See also HALS CA-81 for additional documentation Survey number: HABS CA-321 Building/structure dates: 1808- 1813 Initial Construct... More

Mission Santa Clara de Asis, Franklin & Grant Streets, Santa Clara, Sa...

See also HALS CA-73 for additional documentation. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-175 Survey number: HABS CA-1133 Building/structure dates: ca. 1818 Initial Construction Buildin... More

Mission Santa Clara de Asis, Franklin & Grant Streets, Santa Clara, Sa...

See also HALS CA-73 for additional documentation. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-175 Survey number: HABS CA-1133 Building/structure dates: ca. 1818 Initial Construction Buildin... More

Oahe Congregational Mission, Oahe Reservior Vicinity, Pierre, Hughes C...

Survey number: HABS SD-7 Building/structure dates: 1877 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1879 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1900 Subsequent Work

Mission San Miguel Arcangel, Highway 101, San Miguel, San Luis Obispo ...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-166 Survey number: HABS CA-38-2

Mission San Miguel Arcangel, Highway 101, San Miguel, San Luis Obispo ...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-166 Survey number: HABS CA-38-2

Old Mission Church, Mackinac Island, Mackinac County, MI

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-31 Survey number: HABS MI-214 Building/structure dates: 1830 Initial Construction

Mission San Francisco de Asis, Mission & Sixteenth Streets, San Franci...

Suggested address, Mission & Sixteenth Streets, is not verifiable in documentation. See also HALS CA-83 for additional documentation. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-73 Survey num... More

Mission San Francisco de Asis, Mission & Sixteenth Streets, San Franci...

Suggested address, Mission & Sixteenth Streets, is not verifiable in documentation. See also HALS CA-83 for additional documentation. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-73 Survey num... More

Mission San Francisco de Asis, Mission & Sixteenth Streets, San Franci...

Suggested address, Mission & Sixteenth Streets, is not verifiable in documentation. See also HALS CA-83 for additional documentation. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-73 Survey num... More

[Design drawing for stained glass window showing mission church, belfr...

Public domain image of watercolor painting from British-related collections, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Mission Printing Office, King & Kawaiahao Streets, Honolulu, Honolulu ...

Significance: Construction having begun in Decmeber 1822 on land given to the First Mission Company by King Kamehameha II, the original Ramage Press was moved from the adjacent home of the Loomis family (the Mi... More

Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, 428 South Mission Drive, San Gabriel, Lo...

West Mission Drive & Junipero Serra Street, is not verifiable. Changed to 428 South Mission Drive when addendum submitted in 2013. See HABS No. CA-37-8A for additional drawings. See also HALS CA-82 for addition... More

Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, 428 South Mission Drive, San Gabriel, Lo...

West Mission Drive & Junipero Serra Street, is not verifiable. Changed to 428 South Mission Drive when addendum submitted in 2013. See HABS No. CA-37-8A for additional drawings. See also HALS CA-82 for addition... More

St. John's Episcopal Mission, Chapel & Rectory, Fort Bennett Vicinity,...

Survey number: HABS SD-5 Building/structure dates: 1885-1886 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1892-1893 Subsequent Work

St. John's Episcopal Mission, Chapel & Rectory, Fort Bennett Vicinity,...

Survey number: HABS SD-5 Building/structure dates: 1885-1886 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1892-1893 Subsequent Work

Old mission church, N.M., built 1776 at Zuni.

Original negative number: 42. Part of series: U.S. War Dept., Corps of Engineers; Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of 100th Meridian, Expedition of 1871; Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, commanding. Part of: ... More

National Park Seminary, Indian Mission, 2790 Linden Lane, Silver Sprin...

Significance: The Indian Mission building was the clubhouse for the Theta Sigma Rho sorority. The building's design was inspired by eighteenth-century Franciscan mission churches of the Far West. The early co... More

National Park Seminary, Indian Mission, 2790 Linden Lane, Silver Sprin...

Significance: The Indian Mission building was the clubhouse for the Theta Sigma Rho sorority. The building's design was inspired by eighteenth-century Franciscan mission churches of the Far West. The early co... More

Mission San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo, Ramparts, 6539 San Jose Road,...

Significance: The ramparts were an important part of the San Jose Mission, for their sole purpose was to protect the mission inhabitants against attacks by hostile Indians. All 18th century Spanish missions inc... More

Mission prayer of the little flower ... The Maryknoll fathers, New Yor...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 133, Folder 27.

San Jose de Laguna Mission Church & Convento, Laguna, Cibola County, N...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-2 Survey number: HABS NM-3

San Jose de Laguna Mission Church & Convento, Laguna, Cibola County, N...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-2 Survey number: HABS NM-3

San Jose de Laguna Mission Church & Convento, Laguna, Cibola County, N...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-2 Survey number: HABS NM-3

San Jose de Laguna Mission Church & Convento, Laguna, Cibola County, N...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-2 Survey number: HABS NM-3

Santa Maria Mission (Ruins), Saint Marys, Camden County, GA

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-12 Survey number: HABS GA-14-18 Building/structure dates: after. 1650- before. 1675 Initial Construction

Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, Mission Road, Oceanside, San Diego Co...

Suggested address, Mission Road, is not verifiable in documentation. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-41 Survey number: HABS CA-42 Building/structure dates: 1811- 1815 Initial ... More

Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, Mission Road, Oceanside, San Diego Co...

Suggested address, Mission Road, is not verifiable in documentation. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-41 Survey number: HABS CA-42 Building/structure dates: 1811- 1815 Initial ... More

Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, Mission Road, Oceanside, San Diego Co...

Suggested address, Mission Road, is not verifiable in documentation. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-41 Survey number: HABS CA-42 Building/structure dates: 1811- 1815 Initial ... More

Mission San Juan de Capistrano, Chapel, Berg's Mill-Graf Road, San Ant...

Significance: The chapel is a typical component of a Spanish mission complex built during the period of Texas frontier. Survey number: HABS TX-321-A National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 72001352

San Esteban del Rey Mission, Acoma Pueblo, Cibola County, NM

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-3, FN-4 Survey number: HABS NM-5 Building/structure dates: 16q2 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1770 Subsequent Work

San Esteban del Rey Mission, Acoma Pueblo, Cibola County, NM

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-3, FN-4 Survey number: HABS NM-5 Building/structure dates: 16q2 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1770 Subsequent Work

San Esteban del Rey Mission, Acoma Pueblo, Cibola County, NM

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-3, FN-4 Survey number: HABS NM-5 Building/structure dates: 16q2 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1770 Subsequent Work

Episcopal Mission, Santee, Knox County, NE

Picryl description: Public domain photo of a church building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Mission Santa Ynez, Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet, Benicia, Solano County, ...

STORED ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Mission Santa Ynez is significant as the last surviving example of the thirty-one Mission tankers built by The Marinship Corporation. The design was an adaptation of the ... More

Mission Santa Ynez, Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet, Benicia, Solano County, ...

STORED ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Mission Santa Ynez is significant as the last surviving example of the thirty-one Mission tankers built by The Marinship Corporation. The design was an adaptation of the ... More

Leopoldo Carrillo House, 1005 Mission Avenue, Tucson, Pima County, AZ

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-4 Survey number: HABS AZ-5 Building/structure dates: before 1867 Initial Construction

Mission San Antonio de Padua, Hunter Liggett Military Reservation, Jol...

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St. Joseph & Mary Church, Mission Road, Cloquet, Carlton County, MN

Survey number: HABS MN-106 Public domain photograph - historical image of Minnesota, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mission La Purisima Concepcion, Lompoc, Santa Barbara County, CA

See also HALS CA-79 for additional documentation. Survey number: HABS CA-211 Building/structure dates: ca. 1812- ca. 1830 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1935 Subsequent Work National Regi... More

Mission San Juan Capistrano, Padre's Campanerio, Olive Street, between...

See HABS No. CA-331 for drawings, written data & fieldnotes. Survey number: HABS CA-331-D Building/structure dates: ca. 1900 Subsequent Work National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 71000170

Mission House Drew, Moloka'i Island, Kalaupapa, Kalawao County, HI

Survey number: HABS HI-118 Building/structure dates: 1932 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 76002145

Mission San Carlos Borromeo, Rio Road & Lausen Drive, Carmel-by-the-Se...

Suggested address, Rio Road & Lausen Drive, is not verifiable in documentation. See also HALS CA-71 for additional documentation. Survey number: HABS CA-136 Building/structure dates: after. 1900- before. 1910 ... More

Mission San Carlos Borromeo, Rio Road & Lausen Drive, Carmel-by-the-Se...

Suggested address, Rio Road & Lausen Drive, is not verifiable in documentation. See also HALS CA-71 for additional documentation. Survey number: HABS CA-136 Building/structure dates: after. 1900- before. 1910 ... More

Mission San Carlos Borromeo, Rio Road & Lausen Drive, Carmel-by-the-Se...

Suggested address, Rio Road & Lausen Drive, is not verifiable in documentation. See also HALS CA-71 for additional documentation. Survey number: HABS CA-136 Building/structure dates: after. 1900- before. 1910 ... More

Mission San Carlos Borromeo, Rio Road & Lausen Drive, Carmel-by-the-Se...

Suggested address, Rio Road & Lausen Drive, is not verifiable in documentation. See also HALS CA-71 for additional documentation. Survey number: HABS CA-136 Building/structure dates: after. 1900- before. 1910 ... More

St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal Mission, Church, Eighth Avenue & Thirt...

Survey number: HABS PA-5856-A Building/structure dates: 1881- 1882 Initial Construction

Mission Turn Hall, 3543 Eighteenth Street, San Francisco, San Francisc...

Significance: The structure known as Mission Turn Hall (1910 to 1935), Dovre Hall (1935 to 1976) and the Women's Building (1978 to present) is significant as a clear expression of San Francisco's social history... More

Mission Turn Hall, 3543 Eighteenth Street, San Francisco, San Francisc...

Significance: The structure known as Mission Turn Hall (1910 to 1935), Dovre Hall (1935 to 1976) and the Women's Building (1978 to present) is significant as a clear expression of San Francisco's social history... More

Mission San Juan Bautista, Church, Second Street, San Juan Bautista Pl...

See also HALS CA-84 for additional documentation. Survey number: HABS CA-38-4-A Building/structure dates: 1803-1812 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1906 Subsequent Work Building/structure date... More

Moravian Mission House, King Street vicinity, Christiansted, St. Croix...

Significance: This large masonry and wood frame structure housed at one time at least two full families, one to each of the upper floors. On each floor are central living rooms flanked by bedrooms and other se... More

Moravian Mission House, King Street vicinity, Christiansted, St. Croix...

Significance: This large masonry and wood frame structure housed at one time at least two full families, one to each of the upper floors. On each floor are central living rooms flanked by bedrooms and other se... More

Moravian Mission House, King Street vicinity, Christiansted, St. Croix...

Significance: This large masonry and wood frame structure housed at one time at least two full families, one to each of the upper floors. On each floor are central living rooms flanked by bedrooms and other se... More

Waioli Mission House, Kauai Belt Highway, Hanalei, Kauai County, HI

Significance: Waioli Mission House, a charming two-story wooden frame dwelling with pitched roofs, clapboard siding and extensive open verandahs, was built by Reverend William Patterson Alexander during the yea... More

Photograph of Luther Harris Evans and Members of the European Mission,...

Photograph of Luther Harris Evans and members of the European Mission, the Library of Congress cooperative acquisitions program.

San Jose de Tumacacori (Mission, Ruins), Tubac, Santa Cruz County, AZ

Significance: This monument embraces 10 acres of land in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, about 49 miles south of Tucson and 19 miles north of Hogales. It was created September 15, 1908. Upon the tract is located an... More

San Jose de Tumacacori (Mission, Ruins), Tubac, Santa Cruz County, AZ

Significance: This monument embraces 10 acres of land in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, about 49 miles south of Tucson and 19 miles north of Hogales. It was created September 15, 1908. Upon the tract is located an... More

San Jose de Tumacacori (Mission, Ruins), Tubac, Santa Cruz County, AZ

Significance: This monument embraces 10 acres of land in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, about 49 miles south of Tucson and 19 miles north of Hogales. It was created September 15, 1908. Upon the tract is located an... More

Mission San Gregorio de Abo, State Highway 513, Mountainair vicinity, ...

Significance: The Mission of San Gregorio de Abo, built in the late 1620's, is one of four missions built in the Salinas Province of early Spanish colonization in New Mexico which today comprise Salinas Nationa... More

Mission San Gregorio de Abo, State Highway 513, Mountainair vicinity, ...

Significance: The Mission of San Gregorio de Abo, built in the late 1620's, is one of four missions built in the Salinas Province of early Spanish colonization in New Mexico which today comprise Salinas Nationa... More

Dwight Mission, Administration Building, Rural Route, Sallisaw, Sequoy...

Significance: The Dwight Mission, founded in Arkansas in 1822, moved with the Cherokee into the new Cherokee Nation in 1839, the time of the removal from the east, and from the areas in Arkansas in which some e... More

Mission Santa Inez, State Highway 150, Solvang, Santa Barbara County, ...

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Holy Cross Mission on the Yukon - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.

Mission San Juan Capistrano, California. Photochrom print, 1880-1890.

Historic Sites Public domain photograph - photochrome print, colorized, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Nisky Moravian Mission, Harwood Highway vicinity, Charlotte Amalie, St...

Survey number: HABS VI-86

Nisky Moravian Mission, Harwood Highway vicinity, Charlotte Amalie, St...

Survey number: HABS VI-86

Shawnee Methodist Mission, North Building, Kansas City, Wyandotte Coun...

Survey number: HABS KS-2 Building/structure dates: 1845 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000345

Mission San Francisco de la Espada, Berg's Mill Community, San Antonio...

Significance: First established in 1716, then relocated in 1731 on its present site, the Mission San Francisco de la Espada is one of five extant mission complexes in San Antonio dating from the eighteenth cent... More

Mission San Francisco de la Espada, Berg's Mill Community, San Antonio...

Significance: First established in 1716, then relocated in 1731 on its present site, the Mission San Francisco de la Espada is one of five extant mission complexes in San Antonio dating from the eighteenth cent... More

Mission San Francisco de la Espada, Berg's Mill Community, San Antonio...

Significance: First established in 1716, then relocated in 1731 on its present site, the Mission San Francisco de la Espada is one of five extant mission complexes in San Antonio dating from the eighteenth cent... More

Mission San Francisco de la Espada, Berg's Mill Community, San Antonio...

Significance: First established in 1716, then relocated in 1731 on its present site, the Mission San Francisco de la Espada is one of five extant mission complexes in San Antonio dating from the eighteenth cent... More

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Mission Frame House, King & Kawaiahao Streets, Honolulu, Honolulu Coun...

Significance: The house is credited as the oldest frame house in the Hawaiian Islands, built during the reign of King Kamehameha II. It gains additional distinction from the fact that it represents one of the... More

Tshimakain Mission, Ford, Stevens County, WA

Survey number: HABS WA-91 Building/structure dates: ca. 1845 Initial Construction

Mission Santa Barbara, 2201 Laguna Street, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbar...

Survey number: HABS CA-21 Building/structure dates: 1815- 1820 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1925- 1926 Subsequent Work National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000237

Mission Santa Barbara, 2201 Laguna Street, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbar...

Survey number: HABS CA-21 Building/structure dates: 1815- 1820 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1925- 1926 Subsequent Work National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000237

Mission Nuestra Senora de la Soledad, Soledad, Monterey County, CA

See also HALS CA-80 for additional documentation. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-221 Survey number: HABS CA-1130

Mission Nuestra Senora de la Soledad, Soledad, Monterey County, CA

See also HALS CA-80 for additional documentation. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-221 Survey number: HABS CA-1130

Mission Nuestra Senora de la Soledad, Soledad, Monterey County, CA

See also HALS CA-80 for additional documentation. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-221 Survey number: HABS CA-1130