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The Church

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Photo by Pat Tyler

Bell Tower of the Mission Church

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Photo by Pat Tyler

This is what is left of a restoration (in the early 1930s by the CCC) of the plaster and paint original to the church. We saw a building downtown near the Riverwalk decorated with tile designs inspired by this wall.

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Excerpt from a photo by Gertrude Meyer

This painting illustrates the mission church in all its painted glory in the 1700s.

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