{"nrhp_refnum":"71000158","name":"San Gabriel Mission","other_names":["Mission San Gabriel Arcangel"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Junipero St. and W. Mission Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"San Gabriel","county":"Los Angeles County","state":"CA","lat":34.09792347600006,"lon":-118.10696740499998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1971-05-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"San Gabriel Mission (Mission San Gabriel Arcangel) is an adobe, concrete and brick mission church complex at Junipero Street and West Mission Drive in San Gabriel, Los Angeles County, California. The nominated area covers about 8 acres and was founded in 1771.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as the fourth mission founded in California and one of the most prosperous, with an architecture unlike its sister missions, including a side-wall facade and Moorish-looking capped buttresses. A later addition documents the Lopez Adobe, a surviving section of the mission quadrangle, as a link to the mission era and to nineteenth-century San Gabriel.","narrative":"Mission San Gabriel Arcangel, in San Gabriel, California, was the fourth mission founded in the state, established in 1771 by Friars Pedro Cambon and Angel Somera. It moved to its present site in 1775 because of flood risk at the earlier location. Positioned beside trails from Mexico and later from the eastern United States, it became one of the most prosperous California missions. The present church was begun in 1791 and completed in 1805, damaged by the 1812 earthquake, and repaired in 1828, when the bell tower seen today was built. Its side wall serves as the facade, with capped buttresses and narrow windows giving a Moorish look. Built of adobe, concrete and brick, the church is still used as a parish church. Supplemental documentation also covers the Lopez Adobe, a surviving piece of the mission quadrangle later rebuilt as a family home in the 1860s.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Described as \"fortress style\" with Moorish-looking capped buttresses and long narrow windows; elements traced to Spain","criteria":[],"status_note":"Church remains in use as a parish church; condition marked good, altered, with preservation work in progress. The Lopez Adobe is occupied as a residence, with plans for museum use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:31.374014-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/71000158.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71000158/316f06f11e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71000158/316f06f11e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Robert A. Estremo","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mission_San_Gabriel_4-15-05_6611.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert A. Estremo</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mission_San_Gabriel_4-15-05_6611.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123859484","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_San_Gabriel_Arc%C3%A1ngel","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1939046"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/los-angeles-county/san-gabriel-mission-71000158/"}