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e Mission Dolores adorn the restored ceiling.
There is a fine Baroque altar
Map E4. 3321 16th St. @ 22. v J.
n (415) 621-8203. Open 9am–4pm and reredos, and a display of
daily. Closed Jan 1, Thanksg, Dec 25. historical documents in the
& 7 = ∑ missiondolores.org small museum. Most services
are held in the basilica, built
Preserved intact since it was adjacent to the mission in 1918.
built in 1791, Mission Dolores, The cemetery contains graves
after which the surrounding of San Franciscan pioneers, as
Mission District is named, is well as a mass grave of 5,000
the oldest building in the city Native Americans, who died
and an embodiment of San in the measles epidemics of The altarpiece of Mission Dolores, imported
Francisco’s Spanish Colonial 1804 and 1826. from Mexico in 1780
roots. Founded by Father The statue of Father
Junípero Serra as the sixth Ceramic mural Junípero Serra is a copy of
California mission, it is formally the work of local sculptor
known as the Mission of Arthur Putnam.
San Francisco de Asis.
The name Dolores reflects
its proximity to Laguna de
los Dolores (Lake
of Our Lady of
Sorrows), an
ancient swamp.
The building is The
modest by cemetery
mission stan- extended across
dards, but its many streets. Today,
4-ft- (1.2-m-) the Lourdes Grotto
thick walls have commemorates the
forgotten dead.
survived. Paint-
Figure of saint in ings by Native
the Mission Americans Entrance and gift shop The mission façade
r Haight Ashbury the liveliest and most unconven- late Victorian home. It was once
tional places in San Francisco, a guest house, and its visitors
Map D4. @ 6, 7, 33, 37, 43, 66, 71.
v N. Lower Haight: @ 6, 7, 22, 66, with an eclectic mix of people, included writer Jack London
71. v K, L, M. second-hand clothing shops, and journalist Ambrose Bierce.
renowned music and The Red Victorian B&B,
Stretching from Buena Vista Park bookstores, and a variety of affectionately dubbed the
to Golden Gate Park, Haight excellent cafés. “Jeffrey Haight” in 1967, was a
Ashbury was the center of Buena Vista Park on its eastern favorite among hippies. It now
the hippie world in the 1960s. fringe has a mass of knotted caters to a New Age clientele
Originally a quiet, middle-class trees and offers magnificent and offers rooms with
suburb – hence the dozens of views of the city. The grand transcendental themes.
elaborate Queen Anne-style (Richard) Spreckels Mansion Halfway between City Hall
houses – it changed dramatically on Buena Vista Avenue (not to and Haight Ashbury, the Lower
into the mecca of a free- be confused with the one on Haight marks the border of
wheeling, bohemian community Washington Street) is a typical the predominantly African-
that defied social norms and American Fillmore District,
conventions. In 1967, the which is one of the liveliest
“Summer of Love,” fueled by parts of the city. Unusual art
the media, brought some 75,000 galleries, boutiques, inexpensive
young people in search of free cafés, and bars serve a largely
love, music, and drugs, and it bohemian clientele. It also has
became the focus of a worldwide dozens of houses known as
youth culture. Thousands lived “Victorians,” built from the 1850s
here, and there was even a free to the 1900s, including cottages
clinic to treat hippies without such as the Nightingale House
medical insurance. at 201 Buchanan Street.
Today, “the Haight” retains Although safe during the day,
its radical atmosphere and The Red Victorian B&B in Haight Ashbury, a the Lower Haight can be
has settled into being one of relic of the hippie era unnerving after dark.

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