 This large building is in a fair state of preservation, and is tenanted by several Spanish families.Some carpenters (Spanish) are fitting up one end of the place for a Catholic church ..."

For most of the last half of the 19th Century, the Convento was left to decay.In 1896, the Landmarks Club (led by Charles Fletcher Lummis) signed a ten-year lease on the Mission, planning to restore it.