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Junípero Serra Memorial (1914)
Original staff plaster memorial to Fray Junípero Serra (1713-1794), founder of the Franciscan missions in Alta California, in an 18th Century style frame of scrolled curves and foliage. The Mission San Diego de Alcalá was the first mission founded in Alta California. The bust portrait of Serra was designed by Architect Carleton Monroe Winslow (1876-1946) from a historical portrait. It was modeled in clay for casting in 1914 by Henry R. Schmohl (1874-1941). This memorial group stood outside the semicircular apse at the rear of the church-like northeast wing (shown below) of the 1915 Exposition's Varied Industries and Food Products Building.When this wing of the building was reconstructed in 1971 as the Casa del Prado Theatre,the apse and the Serra Memorial were not replicated. |