Mission Hospice

No state plaque stands here; the bronze is the Daughters of the American Revolution's. This was Ramaytush Ohlone land, and the building the bronze calls a hospice was Mission Dolores's outpost by San Mateo Creek: a granary whose rooms housed Indigenous laborers or travelers, with a chapel that led people to call it a mission, which it never was. By the late 1840s it stood abandoned, and Nicholas de Peyster ran a store and public house in it until William Howard, the rancho's new owner, ordered him out in 1850. It was demolished in 1868 after an earthquake.

What the plaque says

Here stood the Mission Hospice built by the Spanish padres on El Camino Real to break the journey from Santa Clara and to serve the Indians of Mission Dolores, ca. 1800. Marked by Anson Burlingame Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Muir Beach Overlook — 25 mi
  A cliff edge on Highway 1, and the concrete dugouts where two-man crews watched the sea after Pearl Harbor.
• Muir Woods National Monument — 26 mi
  A redwood canyon saved from a reservoir by a gift, and named for a man who had been there once.

More markers nearby

• Anza Expedition Camp at San Mateo Creek — 0.2 mi
• Anza Expedition Camp at Burlingame — 1.3 mi
• Burlingame Railroad Station — 1.4 mi
• Carolands — 2.5 mi