Editing Mission San Francisco de Asís (section)

=== 1700 to 1800 ===
{{See also|Architecture of the California missions}}

The site of the future Mission San Francisco was scouted by the Spanish missionary [[Pedro Font]] in March 1776 during a visit to the [[San Francisco Bay Area|Bay Area]] by the Spanish explorer [[Juan Bautista de Anza]].<ref name="MsandMsCali">{{cite book |author=Engelhardt |first=Zephyrin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R7ugWyl16tEC&q=Pedro+font+missions&pg=PA174 |title=The Missions and Missionaries of California, Volume II: Upper California |year=1912 |pages=181}}</ref> The Spanish missionaries named the new mission San Francisco de Asís, in honor of [[Francis of Assisi]], founder of the [[Franciscan Order]]. It became commonly known as Mission Dolores, after the nearby creek, ''Arroyo de Nuestra Señora de los Dolores ([[Our Lady of Sorrows Creek]])''<ref name="nancy">{{cite book |last=Olmsted |first=Nancy |title=Vanished Waters: A History of San Francisco's Mission Bay |date=1986 |publisher=Mission Creek Conservancy |isbn=0961149213 |location=San Francisco}}</ref>

On October 9, 1776, the missionaries dedicated a small chapel in present-day San Francisco as the Mission San Francisco. According to some sources, the chapel stood near the present intersection of Camp and Albion Streets''.''<ref name="young117">Young, p. 117</ref><ref>Kenneth Robert Zinns, ''The Urban Tradition Patterns of Building in San Francisco's Inner Mission'' (Berkeley: the University of California Dept. of Architecture, 1984), 6; repeated in e.g. Alastair Worden and Randy Leffingwell, ''California Missions & Presidios'' (Beverly MA: Voyageur Press), 173; {{ISBN|1610603648}}</ref> Members of the local [[Ramaytush]] Ohlone tribe are recorded as entering the mission in 1785.<ref>{{cite web |author=Ramayrush Ohlone Association |title=Ramaytush Territory |url=https://www.ramaytush.org/ramaytush-territory.html |access-date=2023-08-06 |website=www.ramayrush.org}}</ref> They would later provide the labor to build the new mission church.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Mission Dolores--Early History of the California Coast--A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary |url=https://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/ca/ca36.htm |access-date=2023-11-21 |website=www.nps.gov}}</ref>

The construction of adobe walls for the Mission Dolores church began in 1788, with the Ohlone laborers manufacturing 36,000 bricks. By 1790, the walls were completed, plastered, and [[whitewash|whitewashed.]]The missionary [[Junípero Serra]] is recorded as having celebrated a mass at the chapel while it was still under construction.

The Mission Dolores adobe church was finished in 1791. The new church had adobe walls that were four feet thick. The roof beams were [[redwood]] and the ceiling displayed traditional Ohlone designs, painted in vegetable dyes.<ref name=":1" /> The mission complex at this time included a convent and facilities for agriculture and manufacturing.