The Mission Inn in Riverside, California is considered one of the largest Mission Revival Architecture style buildings in the US. It also contains elements of other architecture styles.
The hotel was started as the Glenwood Hotel in 1876 by civil engineer Christopher Columbus Miller. In 1902, Miller’s son Frank Augustus Miller changed the name of the place to the Mission Inn Hotel and kept adding to it up until his death in 1935.
it is a magnificent hotel and has some nice restaurants inside.
DrFumblefinger explores the architecture in “Downtown Casablanca”. Most were constructed in the period between WWI and WWII, and show art deco and art nouveau features combined with Moroccan/Moorish features.
A delicious lunch was capped by a pleasant young Berber girl pouring mint tea for us.
I was visiting a friend, and this was the view from their house. I could understand why they built their house facing this direction. I was taken by the beauty!
Samantha shares some street art pictures from her recent trip to Bogotá, Colombia.
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It is a very pretty place to visit or stay at. Here’s a link to some outside photos of the Mission in from a prior post on TravelGumbo.
Thanks for sharing that site. I have lived in Southern California just about my whole life and never knew of this wonderful place.