Old Kitchen -- Mission San Gabriel Archangel, San Gabriel CA
N 34° 05.827 W 118° 06.410
11S E 397900 N 3773477
A sign at the entrance to the reconstructed Old Kitchen that burned in 1812
Waymark Code: WMQWRV
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 04/07/2016
Views: 2
This sign is located outside the reconstructed Old Kitchen, which burned in 1812. In 1936 Fr. Ramon Catalan and some workers rebuilt this kitchen to better show the way the early Franciscans lived at Mission San Gabriel.
The sign reads as follows:
"OLD KITCHEN
This kitchen is a replica of the original old kitchen built by the Franciscan and Gabrileno Indians, but destroyed by fire in the early days. Meals for the friars and Spanish soldiers were prepared here. Fr. Ramon Catalan CMF, thinking of a typical kitchen of the Franciscan era, designed this kitchen after his grandmother’s own, where he was born and raised in Corella, Spain. In 1936 he began rebuilding the old kitchen on the original foundation with his workers, Pablo, Cayetano, and Efran, making the adobe bricks and “carefully turning them in the sun.”
In fond memory of Fr. Ramon Catalan 1906-1987
San Gabriel Mission Docents"
Group that erected the marker: San Gabriel Mission Docents
URL of a web site with more information about the history mentioned on the sign: [Web Link]
Address of where the marker is located. Approximate if necessary:
428 S Mission St
San Gabriel, CA
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