The Journal of San Diego History
Winter 1986, Volume 32, Number 1
Contents of This Issue

The Changing Face of Mission San Diego
by Norman Neuerberg

 
Painting of Mission San Diego de Alcala (c. 1859s) by H.M.T. Powell. Journal cover shown above is a detail from this painting.

 

1860 plat of Mission San Diego showing
location of cemetery at the upper right.

 
Sketch plan of Mission San Diego
drawn by Henry L. Oak in 1874.

 

A plan of the Mission
from the Mexican period.

 

Drawing of Mission San Diego
in 1850 by H.M.T. Powell.

 
Drawing of Mission San Diego in 1850 by H.M.T. Powell purchased by Cave J. Couts who substituted his signature and added a false date.

 
Drawing of Mission San Diego by Heinrich Mollhausen for the lithographs which were published in the Railroad Surveys of 1853.

 

Detail of the drawing of Mission San Diego by Heinrich Mollhausen, showing finials on the espadana.

 
Detail of a drawing of Mission San Diego
in July 1856 by Burch McMurtrie.

 

Detail of a drawing of Mission San Diego
in October 1856 by Henry Miller.

 
Mission San Diego in 1874 with the room between the buttresses still intact.

 

Facade of the church of
Mission San Diego around 1910
with only a trace, at left, of the rooms in front.

 
Model of Mission San Diego
made between 1940-1941 under the supervision of Edith Webb.

 

Example of architecture found in Mexico:
Acolman, facade of the 16th century Augustinian church showing
niches between the door
and window flanked by finials.

 
Example of architecture found in Mexico: Huejotzingo, north door of the 16th century Franciscan church showing a typical alfiz.

 

Example of architecture found in Mexico:
Guadalajara, side door of the 18th century chapel of the
Virgin of Aranzazu showing a niche
between the door and window.

 

Author's suggested restoration
of the church of Mission San Diego de Alcala.

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