Courtyard Inn

by Joseph Hollingsworth

Title

Courtyard Inn

Artist

Joseph Hollingsworth

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Photograph - Digital

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Using a vintage filter and texture to portray this important and beautiful part of California history. The monotone allows for the craftsmanship to lead rather than the color lights and glitz one sees upon entering. Located in Riverside California.
The Mission Inn Hotel & Spa began as a quaint adobe boarding house in 1876, and blossomed into a full-service hotel in the early 1900s thanks to California’s economic citrus boom and warm weather, attracting wealthy travelers and investors from the East Coast and Europe. Opened by Frank Miller, The Inn expanded in 1903 with over 200 guestrooms and the addition of the Mission Wing , built in Mission-Revival style while incorporate architectural features from more than 20 different California missions. Three more wings materialized as demand grew, including the Cloister, Spanish Wing and the Rotunda Wing, which was completed in 1931. Miller filled the hotel with valuable wares from across the globe, including artwork, furniture and religious relics. The Mission Inn houses the oldest bell in Christendom, dating back to 1247.

The Mission inn has played host to U.S. Presidents, celebrities and served as the setting in may Hollywood productions, such as 1915’s “The Vampire”, 1938’s “Idiot’s Delight”, and 1997’s “Man in the Iron Mask”. Presidents Roosevelt, Taft, Hoover, Nixon, Reagan and Bush Jr; social leaders such as Booker T. Washington, Susan B. Anthony, Amelia Earhart, Albert Einstein, Helen Keller and John Muir; and entertainers including Judy Garland, Bette Davis, Clark Gable, Tom Hanks, Barbara Streisand and James Brolin have all stayed, dined and relaxed at The Mission Inn throughout its storied, nearly 150-year history.

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July 20th, 2017

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