Mission San Miguel Arcángel National Historic Landmark Nomination
Grimes T. 2006. Mission San Miguel Arcángel National Historic Landmark Nomination. National Historic Landmark Nominations. 71000191_NHL. National Park Service. Washington, DC
This document is the National Historic Landmark (NHL) nomination for Mission San Miguel Arcángel in San Miguel, San Luis Obispo County, California. The NHL nomination for Mission San Miguel Arcángel documents its national significance under NHL Criteria #1 and 4 for its association with Spanish colonial expansion in California. The mission was the sixteenth of the twenty-one missions established in California by the Franciscan order between 1769 and 1823 to convert Native Americans to Christianity. This chain of missions had a major effect on the future development of the state. Mission San Miguel is one of five other missions that retain the sites of their neophyte villages. The mission is also an excellent and rare example of Spanish Colonial architecture in the primitive style that inspired the later Mission Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival styles, and the church interior is the only surviving example of unrestored colonial art in any California mission. The period of national significance is 1797–1834.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Grimes, Teresa
- Date of Issue
- 2006-03-20
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Keywords
- California, Mission, National Historic Landmark, San Miguel, Spanish