Vallejo's home (1850) and the restored mission now form the main part of Sonoma State Historic Park.
Our favorite restaurant was Casa Mission, in a picturesque and exquisitely restored mission that has been a private residence for many years.
When, like her great-grandmother, she launches herself to her death from a bell tower in a restored Mission town, Stewart is devastated.
When, like her great-grandmother, she launches herself to her death from a bell tower in a restored mission town, Stewart is devastated.
A constellation of beautifully restored missions on the modern city's Southside echoes these distant origins.
In 1924, The Times wrote about Father St. John O'Sullivan of Mission San Juan Capistrano and his efforts to restore the mission.
Now, ahead of the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing in July, Nasa is working to restore Apollo mission control to its former glory.
Mr. Rubin heard about the house in 1997 and began organizing a search-and-restore mission with Eric Touchaleaume, a Paris dealer whose knack for bringing goods back from remote locations has won him a reputation as the Indiana Jones of Modernist artifacts.
The item had been supported by the area's legislators, both Democrat and Republican, as one portion of a $900,000 package that must be put together to restore the Mission-style building on Colorado Boulevard, just west of Eagle Rock Boulevard.
"Disjointed beauty," is how Anthony M. Tung, a preservationist, described the juxtaposition of buildings like the restored Bowery Mission and the sleek New Museum on a street where vagrants once paid 15 cents for an overnight bunk and where hotel rooms can start at $500 and an apartment sold last August (at No. 259) for almost $5 million.
A State Department spokesman, P. J. Crowley, said the United States remained concerned about Syria's nuclear activity but stood by a decision to restore the diplomatic mission in Syria.
