Description: Four-foot-thick adobe walls have withstood earthquakes and over 200 years of wear and tear, making Mission Dolores the oldest building in San Francisco. One can imagine the lifestyle of the Franciscan Fathers who founded the Mission in 1776 when viewing such details as the hand-hewn roof beams or the quiet beauty of the courtyard cemetery.
The mission called Dolores was founded October 9, 1776. The padres chose a site for Mission San Francisco de Asis beside a little inlet called Laguna Dolores. The nearby pueblo was named Yerba Buena. As time went by the town took the name of Saint Francis, while the mission more popularly became known as Dolores. Even though located beside one of the finest harbors in all the world, Mission Dolores was handicapped from the outset by lack of suitable space for agriculture, competition for that space from the citizens of the Spanish pueblo, and the damp and foggy climate. Initially the Indians were greatly attracted to the mission, but ample food and protection from enemies had to be measured against fatal epidemics of measles, the worldly attractions of the pueblo, and the free life of "unenlightened" brothers across the bay.
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