THE HISTORIC MISSION INN HOTEL & SPA BACKGROUNDER
After being closed for more than seven years while undergoing $55 million extensive renovation, the historic Mission Inn Hotel & Spa of Riverside, California reopened in December 1992.
The Mission Inn Hotel & Spa is owned by Duane R. Roberts, Chairman, President & CEO of the Historic Mission Inn Corporation, headquartered in Newport Beach.
Occupying an entire city block and encompassing 320,000 square-feet, The Mission Inn Hotel & Spa is located in downtown Riverside, California. The Inn began as a two-story adobe guesthouse in 1876. In 1903, Frank Miller began to expand the original facilities, a process that took more than 30 years to complete. The finished project incorporates design elements from throughout the southwestern United States and several Mediterranean countries with a particular influence from the California missions. It incorporates the work of several California architects including Arthur Benton, Myron Hunt and G. Stanley Wilson. The Inn represents a blending of architectural elements, flying buttresses, domes, a bell tower, clock towers, interior courtyards and patios, a five-story open-air rotunda and a circular wrought-iron staircase.
The Inn features 239 guest rooms (including 28 suites), Duane’s Prime Steak’s and Seafood, the Mission Inn Restaurant and Spanish Patio, Las Campanas Mexican Cuisine & Cantina, Bella Trattoria and the Presidential Lounge. The property also contains 15,100 square-feet of meeting and banquet space, 5,000 square-feet of outdoor courtyard space, a Classic Californian out-door swimming pool and two wedding chapels.
The Mission Inn Hotel & Spa is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a State of California Historic Landmark. The property is also a member of Historic Hotels of America. Filled with more than $7 million of antiques and artifacts, the Mission Inn Hotel & Spa offers tours of the property through the Mission Inn Foundation that operates the on-property museum.
Over the years, the Inn has hosted numerous dignitaries including five acting United States Presidents, as well as being the site of Richard and Pat Nixon’s wedding and Nancy and Ronald Reagan’s honeymoon.
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