Riverside's Historic Mission Inn, 3649 Mission Inn Avenue. Located between Orange and Main in downtown Riverside ... The Mission Inn Museum is at the South-West corner of The Inn.

HERE ARE SOME "INN-SIDE" FACTS

There was never a "Mission" at or near the Mission Inn. In fact, the twenty-one California missions were in ruins or inoperable when Frank Miller opened his Mission Wing in February, 1903!

Frank's father, Captain Christopher Columbus Miller obtained the 2 1/2 acre site in 1875, in lieu of about $328 in back wages!

The Inn grew out of a twelve room, two story, adobe house; built in 1876 by the teen aged Frank Miller (with the help of local labor), on the site of today's swimming pool!

The Miller family took in a boarder in the fall of 1876 to help make ends meet and thus began a cottage industry that would evolve into the world famous Mission Inn!

If an insurance company in New York City had not been expanding, the Saint Francis Chapel would proabably not have those priceless Tiffany windows!

A hotel apartment built for a banker, became a suite for Presidents, Royalty and Hollywood Stars ... Richard Nixon married there ... Ronald Reagan honeymooned there ... and a man named Swig, changed it ... into a ... Bar!

About 1917; years before he became an international motion picture star and hero as "Hop-Along-Cassidy", William Boyd held a part time job at the Mission Inn. Through his duties as chauffer and local guide, he met and married his first wife. By 1918 that marriage was over and Boyd headed for Hollywood! In 1921, Boyd returned to the Mission Inn for his second wedding and honey-moon ... this time with Hollywood lights, cameras, and hoopla!

For more, please join me or one of my fellow docents and share the drama, mysteries, and excitement of this State and National Historic Landmark, The Mission Inn!
Bill Brothers, Docent Class of "91"
FOR TOUR INFORMATION AND RESERVATIONS, PLEASE CALL 909-781-8241

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