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Building Construction in the Dominican Missions
I am going to append several tables that summarize building construction in the Dominican missions, including San Pedro Martir.
Building Construction Reported at Rosario Mission, 1794-1800
1793: The church was an adobe structure with dimensions of 46 x 9 varas.
1794: A new cemetery opened.
1795: Two infirmaries built, one for men and the other for women. Other structures built included a forge and a wing of habitations for Indian
converts.
1796: Existing buildings repaired, and a corral built.
1797: Existing buildings repaired and reroofed.
1798: A dispenary 8 varas long built.
1799: An adobe structure and oratory built at Rancho San Jose. The mission was moved to San Jose about three years later.
1800: Four adobe structures built including a storeroom that measured 12 x 6 varas, a kitchen, forge, and weaving room.
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Source: Annual Reports, Archivo General de la Nacion, Mexico, D.F., Misiones 2 and Provincias Internas 19; Zephyrin Engelhardt, O.F.M., Missions and
Missionaries of California: Lower California, 2nd edition (Mission Santa Barbara, 1929), 613-614.
Building Construction Reported at Santo Domingo Mission, 1793-1801
1793: The church reportedly was a structure of adobes and poles measuring 18 x 8 varas.
1794: A new cemetery was laid out, and an adobe structure and adobe corral were built.
1795: The church was lengthened by 20 varas, and walls on existing structures were raised. Corridors with pillars were added to existing structures.
An underground storeroom to store wine was built. Other projects begun in 1795 and completed in the following year included a residence for the
servants, a kitchen and common (dining?) area, and a bell tower with two arches. All structures were whitewashed.
1796: An adobe structure measuring 50 varas in length was built at Rancho San Telmo. The building contained a reception room, bedroom, granary,
dispensary, and chapel. A corral and residence for the overseer were also built.
1797: A stone corral was built that also helped to control run-off. An irrigation ditch 2 leagues long was built to irrigate the fields. Stream waters
near the mission were blocked by a large sand dune and could not be used when the level of the water was low. Flooding by the stream also damaged the
fields by depositing sand. A chapel was built at San Telmo, and three structures begun in 1796 were completed with the addition of a roof. Structures
at San Telmo were whitewashed.
1798: A new structure was built at San Telmo with bedrooms, granary, dispensary, chapel. Lands for growing corn were cleared.
1799: An adobe corral was built at San Telmo. A new residence for the missionaries is mentioned again, which may indicate an on-going building
project. A residence was also built for workers assigned to San Telmo. A dam and irrigation ditch were built, and pillars were placed around a pond of
water to prevent cattle from entering it.
1800: Additional rooms were built including a smithy and carpenter shop.
1801: Quarters were built for the mission guard.
Source: : Annual Reports, Archivo General de la Nacion, Mexico, D.F., Misiones 2 and Provincias Internas 19; Zephyrin Engelhardt, O.F.M., Missions and
Missionaries of California: Lower California, 2nd edition (Mission Santa Barbara, 1929), 618.
Building Construction Reported at Santo Tomas Mission, 1794-1801
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1793: Church described as being of adobe with dimensions of 12 x 5 varas.
1794: Mission, originally established in 1791, was moved to a new site. An adobe chapel and residence for the missionaries were built.
1795: Seventy varas of foundation laid for new buildings.
1796: An adobe structure was built containing a reception room (sala), two bedrooms, another room, and a common area. A dispensary was built, as well
as dormitories for single men and single women. A weaving room with an adjoining corral was built.
1797: A corral for sheep and goats was built. 1,400 varas of foundation were laid for building projects.
1798: No building projects reported, because indigenous workers prepared new agricultural fields.
1799: Four adobe structures were built measuring 20, 14, 7, and 6 varas in length respectively. Foundations were laid for a new church.
1800: Work continued on the church. A corridor, weaving room, and granary were built.
1801: The adobe church begun in 1799 was completed. It measured 30 x 6 varas. Two store rooms, each measuring 10 x 8 varas were built, as well as a
new dormitory for single women and girls measuring 9 x 6 varas.
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Source: Annual Reports, Archivo General de la Nacion, Misiones 2, and Provincias Internas 19. Zephyrin Engelhardt, O.F.M., Missions and Missionaries
of California: Lower California, 2nd edition (Mission Santa Barbara, 1929), 625-626.
Building Construction Reported at Santa Catalina Mission, 1797-1802
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1797: Adobe structures built that included a granary that measured 12 x 6 varas, offices measuring 6 x 6 varas, and a dormitory for single women and
girls that measured 6 x 6 varas. Use of other structures not specified.
1798: Two adobe structures were built.
1799: An adobe dormitory for single women and girls that measured 5 x 6 varas was built. A second adobe structure was built.
1802: Adobe structures were built.
_________________________________Sources: Annual Reports, Archivo General de la Nacion, Mexico, D.F., Misiones 2 and Provincias Internas 19; Zephyrin
Engelhardt, O.F.M., Missions and Missionaries of California: Lower California, 2nd edition (Mission Santa Barbara, 1929), 630.
: Building Construction at the Other Missions
1793: The church at San Vicente was an adobe structure 22 x 7 varas. The church at San Miguel was an adobe structure 26 x 7 varas.
1795: A dormitory for single women and a storeroom were built at San Vicente. A granary 26 x 6 varas was built at a site 4 leagues from San Miguel
mission where corn was grown. The Dominicans at San Pedro Martir directed the construction of an adobe structure with a sala 10 x 6 ? varas, 2
sleeping quarters each 8 x 8 varas, a granary, a kitchen, and a dispensary.
1796: A granary 18 x 5 varas and two residences for the overseers each 10 x 5 varas were built. Three adobe structures were built at San Miguel.
Buildings erected at San Pedro Martir included an adobe church 20 x 8 ? varas, a sacristy 5 x 8 ? varas, a baptistery 5 x 5 varas, a granary 8 x 4 ?
varas, and a kitchen 7 x 5 varas.
1798. Three adobe rooms and 2 granaries built at San Miguel.
1800: A new residence for the missionaries and their servants was built at San Miguel.
1801: Building at San Pedro Martir included a new adobe church 25 x 6 varas, along with a long adobe structure that contained a sala 14 x 7 varas, 2
rooms each measuring 7 x 8 varas, and a dispensary 7 x 12 varas.
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Source: : Annual Reports, Archivo General de la Nacion, Mexico, D.F., Misiones 2 and Provincias Internas 19; Zephyrin Engelhardt, O.F.M., Missions and
Missionaries of California: Lower California, 2nd edition (Mission Santa Barbara, 1929), 63599-600, 622, 628-629.
[Edited on 4-21-2004 by academicanarchist]
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Great info! Most of the soils at the San Pedro site seemed very sandy/granitic--was wondering where they got good clay for building adobe structures
up there...maybe Baja Taco or Jack Swords saw some good adobe materials up there? I didn't spend to much time nosing around the mission site......
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Baja Taco - software used for maps?
Great stuff folks!
Baja Taco - what program did you use to make those 3D maps. They don't look like ArcGis output. Could they be the Manifold 5.5 extension? I'm working
on trying to develop some GIS layers of Baja since there seems to be few to none available. If you know of any sources of data I'd love to know about
them.
Thanks,
RN
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3-D program
 The name of the 3-D program I used is 3DEM (www.visualizationsoftware.com/3dem.html).
This is a Freeware program I discovered while looking for mapping programs associated with Baja There are not very many). You can do numerous things
with the program including downloading data (tracks and routes) from a GPS, apply a geo referenced overlay, like a Land-Sat image,of a scanned topo
map.
There is a learning curve with using the program, but is is fun.
3DEM is actually only the program for manipulating elevation data, but the data is FREE too, you just have to take the time to download the data you
need. For Baja the data is available in 1 degree longitude by 1 degree latitude files, so you have to know the lat/lon of the area you are trying to
map. You can seam adjacent files if you are happen to be near a lat/lon line. I do recommend that you have a cable of DSL line, as it could take
15-20 minutes per file on a dial up, and it may crash just at the end...just ask BajaLu  .
The Baja elevation files are based a Space shuttle mission in 1999 that bounced radar off the majority of the earth surface to measure altitude. The
Baja accuracy is around 3 degrees (or 90 meters) while data is availble for the USA at an accuracy of 1 degree (or 30 meters). Maybe someday they will
release the more accurate files for Baja, but of course the more accurate they are the larger the file size and the longer it takes to download the
data. 3 DEM will read other elevation file formats, but currently only the space Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission (SRTM) are the only ones that are
avaliable for Baja. You could also map Iraq with this program, if you wanted to . A 10 meter accuracy file I downloaded for the LA and Orange County area was 100MB in size, the Baja files, I believe are around 5 to 10 MB each.
Check out the 3DEM site, there is a lot of info and they should be able to answer any questions you have. If you can't find an answer, just ask me
and I will try.
-Brooks
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