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Miller hosted President Theodore Roosevelt soon after the 1903 Mission Wing was built.
Frequent visitors included Maude Adams, Sarah Bernhardt, and Madame Modjeska, who played
to Riverside audiences in the Loring Opera House. Hamlin Garland, Pulitzer Prize-winning au-
thor, wrote portions of his latest works in the Inn's Alhambra Suite. Visiting members of the royal
houses of Sweden, Russia, and Japan were honored at banquets. After Frank Miller died in 1935,
the Mission Inn had a variety of owners until the Historic Mission Inn Corporation purchased the
property.
For more than 130 years, the Mission Inn has been the center of social activity in the city and has
attracted 10 presidents. Pat and Richard Nixon were married in the wedding chapel, while Nancy
and Ronald Reagan honeymooned here. When President Taft, who weighed more than 330 pounds,
came to visit, Frank Miller had a special chair built to hold his ample frame.
To guests and the people of Riverside, the Mission Inn has always meant more than simply bed,
bath, and board. It is an assemblage of arcades and gardens, turrets and domes, flying buttresses and
spiraling staircases, catacombs and carillon towers. It is also fine art and Spanish cannons, stained
glass and ceramic tile, saints and dragons, bells and wrought iron. It is also an artful and architec-
tural tribute to the vision of Frank Miller.
Mission Inn
3649 Mission Inn Avenue
Riverside, California 92501
(951) 784-0300
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