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Cynthia Thompson, historian and member of the San Buenaventura Conservancy, shows a room in the priest's quarters built by Harold Burket in 1928, during a preview tour of the San Buenaventura Mission and Hotel Washington in Ventura.

Photo by David Yamamoto, Special to The Star

Cynthia Thompson, historian and member of the San Buenaventura Conservancy, shows a room in the priest's quarters built by Harold Burket in 1928, during a preview tour of the San Buenaventura Mission and Hotel Washington in Ventura.

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  • Cynthia Thompson, historian and member of the San Buenaventura Conservancy, shows a room in the priest's quarters built by Harold Burket in 1928, during a preview tour of the San Buenaventura Mission and Hotel Washington in Ventura.
  • Father Tom Elewaut opens the lid of a Father Junipero Serra copper baptismal font in the Serra Chapel Bapistry of the Junipero Serra Chapel, during a preview tour of the Hotel Washington and San Buenaventura Mission.
  • A view of the bell tower and rooftop of the Junipero Serra Chapel are seen between the columns outside of Monsignor Patrick J. O'Brien Hall during a preview tour of the Hotel Washington and San Buenaventura Mission.
  • The first water settling tank providing water to the mission community in the 1800s is shown during a preview tour of the San Buenaventura Mission and Hotel Washington in Ventura.
  • Cynthia Thompson, historian and member of the San Buenaventura Conservancy, watches Father Tom Elewaut play an old piano in a classroom built in the 1920s during a preview tour of the San Buenaventura Mission and Hotel Washington.
  • Father Tom Elewaut unlocks the gate to the Serra Chapel Bapistry in the Junipero Serra Chapel, during a preview tour of the San Buenaventura Mission and the Hotel Washington in Ventura.
  • The Junipero Serra Chapel, built in 1809 and containing artifacts including the paintings of the Stations of the Cross which date 40 years before the chapel was built, can be seen during this year's annual San Buenaventura Conservancy's architectural tour, open to the public Saturday.
  • Father Tom Elewaut shows Chumash made baskets at the mission museum during a preview tour of the Hotel Washington and San Buenaventura Mission in Ventura.
  • The tomb of Fathers Vincente de Santa Maria, Jose Senan and Francisco Suner is shown during a preview tour of the San Buenaventura Mission and Hotel Washington in Ventura.
  • A statue of St. Isidore, patron saint of agriculture and technology, is pointed out in the Junipero Serra Chapel during a preview tour of the chapel at the San Buenaventura Mission in Ventura.
  • Professional historian and member of the San Buenaventura Conservancy Cynthia Thompson shows rooms of the Hotel Washington that were the living quarters of the Reardon family, during a preview tour of the San Buenaventura Mission and Hotel Washington.
  • Cynthia Thompson, professional historian and member of the San Buenaventura Conservancy. leads a preview tour of the Hotel Washington and San Buenaventura Mission in Ventura. The preview tour is part of this year's annual San Buenaventura Conservancy's architectural tour, open to the public Nov. 5, and features portions of the mission never seen by the public, including an rectory and school that dates back to the 1920s.

On Easter morning March 31, 1782, Father Junipero Serra raised the cross at Mission San Buenaventura at what was then called 'la playa de la canal de Santa Barbara' (the beach at the Santa Barbara Channel).

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