Santa Clara University (Calif.); Mission Santa Clara; Santa Clara (Calif.);
Mission Church as it appeared after an Italianate Victorian façade of wood with two matching towers was laid over its original adobe front in 1861. The California Hotel with its second floor Debating Hall can also be seen.
Santa Clara University (Calif.); Gardens; Varsi, Aloysius, S.J., 1830-1900;Jesuits; Muybridge, Edweard, 1830-1904
Aloysius Varsi, S.J. president of Santa Clara College from 1868-1876, standing beside a newly planted palm tree in the Mission Gardens. The Administration Building is in the background.
Messea arrived in California in 1854, founded Santa Clara College's Science Departmtent, and purchased an impressive treasury of scientific instruments and minerals.
Santa Clara University (Calif.); Altarpieces; Altars; Mission churches; Turrill, Charles B. (Charles Beebe), 1854-1927; Mission Santa Clara, Church interior;
Sanctuary of Mission Santa Clara with Statue of St. Clare in center.
Santa Clara University (Calif.); Santa Clara (Calif.); Adobe buildings;
Image of adobe outbuilding of third site of Mission Santa Clara. The building was an Indian family's apartment that was taken over by Yankee squatters.
Santa Clara University (Calif.); Jails; Santa Clara (Calif.); Adobe buildings
This was the oldest jail in California built on the old Gardner property after the second Mission Santa Clara site was erected near the present Santa Clara depot in 1818. The structure was razed on January 12, 1922. This image was taken as workmen...
