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The Royal Presidio Chapel of San Carlos, Monterey, Capital of Colonial California

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2015

Maynard Geiger
Maynard Geiger*
Affiliation:
Old Mission, Santa Barbara, California
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It is rare that one finds, in the form of drawings and documents, a study of the architectural evolution of a church in the Spanish borderlands of the United States. Most of the churches were Indian missions, built at first of adobe in a simple, crude form, with thatched roofs. More beautiful buildings arose in a later period of development when Indian converts had increased and after skilled workmen were available to raise them as monuments of beauty on a cheerless frontier.

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The Americas , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , October 1952 , pp. 207 - 211
Copyright
Copyright © Academy of American Franciscan History 1952

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References

1 Official Registers of Baptisms, Marriages and Deaths of Mission San Carlos de Monterey, inscribed by Serra, in the Chancery Archives,’ Fresno, California. Official document of taking possession of the port of Monterey signed by Portolá, Fages, Pérez and Pino, Archivo General, Mexico, D.F. Photographs of same in the Santa Barbara Mission Archives.

2 Informe of Serra and Noriega, July 10, 1784, Archivo General, Mexico, D.F. Photograph in the Santa Barbara Mission Archives.

3 Bancroft, H. H., History of California (San Francisco, 1884), I, 615; V, 707.Google Scholar

4 Lasuén was President of the California Missions from 1785 to 1803.

5 Data supplied by the Rt. Rev. Msgr. James E. Culleton, D.D., J.C.D., Chancellor of the Diocese of Monterey-Fresno, and Harry Downie, mission authority, Carmel, both corresponding members of the Academy of American Franciscan History.

6 Pedro Fages was Governor of California from September, 1782, until April, 1791, Bancroft, , op. cit., I, 482–483; III, 733.Google Scholar

7 Bancroft terminates the governorship of Fages with the delivery of his office and command to his successor, José Antonio Romeu, April 16, 1791, op. cit., I, 482.

8 Romeu reached Monterey October 13, 1791, and died there April 9, 1792, Bancroft, op. cit., I, 489.