{"nrhp_refnum":"71000131","name":"Mission San Jose","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Mission Blvd. at Washington Blvd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fremont","county":"Alameda County","state":"CA","lat":37.53341209000007,"lon":-121.91973941499998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1971-07-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture","Religion","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Mission San Jose is the surviving portion of the living quarters of a Franciscan mission in the Mission San Jose District of Fremont, Alameda County, California. The long one-story adobe building dates from about 1810, and the mission itself was founded in 1797.","why_significant":"The mission was founded in 1797 as the fourteenth of California's twenty-one coastal missions and the only one in the East Bay. It became one of the most populous and prosperous missions, especially in the 1830s. The surviving adobe building is a restored remnant of that complex.","narrative":"Only part of the original Mission San Jose survives today: a long, one-story building of sun-dried adobe brick made from native soil, dating from about 1810. It once formed part of the living quarters of a Franciscan mission in what is now the Mission San Jose District of Fremont. Founded on June 11, 1797, by Fermin Francisco de Lasuen, it was the fourteenth of California's twenty-one coastal missions and the only one founded in the East Bay. Its population reached 1,877 in 1831, and in the 1830s it was probably the most prosperous mission in California. The adobe church was destroyed by the 1868 earthquake and replaced by a wooden church. Preservation work began in 1916, a roof was added to protect the walls, and further restoration followed in 1950. The building now serves as a museum, with plans proposed to reconstruct the adobe church.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is marked excellent, unaltered and on its original site. The adobe building was restored in 1950 and is now a museum; a wooden church built after the 1868 earthquake stands on the site of the original adobe church.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:31.73904-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/71000131.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71000131/ab5cc8ac9d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71000131/ab5cc8ac9d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"King of Hearts","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mission_San_Jose_April_2011_001.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">King of Hearts</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mission_San_Jose_April_2011_001.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123858282","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_San_Jos%C3%A9_(California)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6878722"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/alameda-county/mission-san-jose-71000131/"}