Glenwood Mission Inn, Riverside, California
Arches
Description | Caption on back: The Glenwood Mission Inn embodies many distinctive Mission features. The row of arches, the keynote of Spanish Renaissance Architecture, is copied after those of San Juan Capistrano Mission. |
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Court of the Birds
Description | Caption on back: From its very entrance, the Mission Inn is in harmony in its Spanish American architecture. Palms, grape vine, and flowering plants make of the Court, a garden such as the "Padres" loved. |
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Campanario
Description | Caption on back: The Campanario, with its old bells, follows in outline, the form of the bell tower of the San Gabriel Mission. |
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Chinese bell
Description | Caption on back: The Historical Parent Naval Orange Tree was sent to Riverside in 1874 from the Agricultural Department at Washington. From this tree and one other are descended all naval orange trees in existence. The huge Chinese bell is from Nanking, and is one of the Inn's famous collection. |
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The arch
Description | Caption on back: The Arch, as in the Campanario, and the Arcade, and other portions of the Inn, is typical of the Mission Architecture of the early Spanish days. |
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Spanish art gallery
Description | Caption on back: The Spanish Art Gallery is typical of mediaeval halls of Spanish Castles, where ancestral paintings were hung. Here are displayed interesting canvases and rare tapestries from Spain and Mexico. The unusual ceiling of golden cloth is especially Castilian. |
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Spanish patio
Description | Caption on back: The Spanish patio, with its tables for dining out-of-doors, is an especially attractive feature of the Inn, and adds much to the picturesque foreign atmosphere. |
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Alhambra Galleries
Description | Caption on back: The Alhambra Galleries of the Spanish Patio are adorned with carved brackets from the famous Alhambra at Granada. The slender arches, the iron railings and red tile pavements, lend an atmosphere very Andalusian. |
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Guest chamber
Description | Caption on back: The guest chambers with their simple furnishings, niched walls, and beamed ceilings, are in harmony with the prevailing cloister-like simplicity of the Inn. |
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Garden of the Bells
Description | Caption on back: The Garden of the Bells, contains a unique and interesting collection of bells from all over the world; the oldest one bearing the date of 1247. |
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Cloister
Description | Caption on back: In the Cloister have been reproduced many architectural bits of the old Mission. The Massive buttresses are copied from those of San Gabriel Mission. |
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Cloister music room
Description | Caption on back: The balcony rail is a replica of that of San Miguel Mission. The paintings are rare examples of the Spanish and Mexican Art of the Seventeenth Century. |
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Organ
Description | Caption on back: The Music Room was built with two objects: to pay tribute to the Mission fathers and to contain a cathedral pipe organ. This organ, built by the Kimball Company, has 38 stops and 2,700 pipes. The Vox Humana is especially noteworthy. The pipes were left in the natural zinc, undecorated, and harmonize with the simplicity of the room. |
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Cloister music room
Description | Caption on back: In the Music Room have been reproduced many interesting features of the old Missions. The balcony is like that of San Miguel; the niches of the Cloistered Walk are copied from the mortuary chapel of San Luis Rey. The exquisite St. Cecilia windows of stained glass, the Cathedral pipe organ, the brocaded banners and the rare old paintings from churches in Spain and Mexico, making an unusual harmonious ensemble. |
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Carmel Tower
Description | Caption on back: The Carmel Tower is inspired by that of Carmel Mission, the one most beloved by Junipero Serra, the founder, and the Buttresses by those of San Gabriel Mission. |
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- Collection
- Date Issued
- between 1920 and 1956
- Publisher
- Location Of Originals
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This digital image is a surrogate of an item from the Baja California and the West Postcard Collection.
- Physical Description
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1 booklet (15 postcards) : sepia photomechanical prints; 3.75 x 6 inches
- Geographics
- Topic
- Cartographics
Point: 33.983333, -117.372778
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- Language
- English
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Online finding aid
- Publication
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Published by Julius J. Hecht, Los Angeles, Cal.
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[Title, Date]. Baja California and the West Postcard Collection. MSS 235. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
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2020-10-27