MISSION DOLORES
Mission — San Francisco, California
Status: Historic site · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/mission-dolores-san-francisco-california/

The 1776 mission that survived when the city around it burned.

Mission Dolores is a mission in San Francisco, California. The 1776 mission that survived when the city around it burned. HauntHunt files it with missions, local folklore and haunted places. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend and 1 documented fact — documented record and retelling kept side by side. The site is open to visitors.

Mission Dolores is the oldest — the 'intact' that's the building's mark, the '1791' that's the dedication's date. The 'no nails' is the built — the 'wooden pegs' that's the joints' form, the 'rawhide' that's the lashing's stuff. The 'sorrows named' is the called — the 'creek's name' that's the Dolores's source, the 'tears' that's the creek's mean.
The '5,000 lie' is the buried — the 'Ohlone Miwok' that's the builders' names, the 'cemetery only' that's the city's keep. The 'earthquake stood' is the survived — the '1906' that's the shake's year, the 'basilica fell' that's the neighbor's fate. Mission Dolores is the used — the 'continuous' that's the church's run, the 'birthplace' that's the city's claim.
The file keeps Mission Dolores: the oldest intact, the nail-less build, the sorrow's name, and the buried builders.
Mission Dolores is the archive's California file — the building older than the city.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Mission Dolores is the archive's California file — the building that watched San Francisco be born.
A mission keeps its bones — the file's suggestion being that Dolores's hold is the intact: the 'no nails' that's the build's craft, the '5,000 buried' that's the builders' keep, and the 'quake survived' that's the oldest's proof.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Local folklore] apparition: Reported figures in the cemetery and a presence in the chapel. The church's centuries of ministry give the reports a long congregation to draw on. Local lore carries the account; no documentation has ever caught up with it. The report is preserved in sources like 'Mission Dolores'. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting.
  source: Mission Dolores (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_San_Francisco_de_As%C3%ADs)

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· [1776] Founded 1776; the oldest surviving building in San Francisco. The site's documented religious history is the record the rest of the file stands on. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. Sources including 'Mission Dolores' carry the record. The detail belongs to the verified spine of the entry.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Mission Dolores — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_San_Francisco_de_As%C3%ADs

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