Stanford University - Quad Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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Indians of the peninsula region delineated by a F ranch artist, Choris, dur- ing a visit to San Francis- co about 1818. A commu- nity of this primitive race lived where the Quad- rangle now stands. The San Francisquito region was first inhabited by a prehistoric tribe of Indians whose civilization was much superior to that of later tribes. They cared for the sick and aged, used elaborate burial rites, and eventually dis- appeared as mysteriously as other tribes of those early times. When in 1767 the Jesuits were replaced by the Franciscan missionaries to offset the strength of the order, the Indians were docile and in a primitive state. Father Serra became the Presidente of the missions that developed rapidly, aided by the early military and colonizing expeditions of Portola, Anza, and Rivera. Crude log houses were followed by the 'dobe architecture of the presidios, missions, and haciendas. Father Palou was Father Serra's choice for the San Francis- quito area, and in 1779 a great whitened cross was erected under the age-old Palo Alto Tree although the fotuiding of Mission Dolores and Mission Santa Clara made a church there tmnecessary. But the peaceful, happy age of the Missions ended in 1813 with the Secularization Act depriving them of their property to provide money for the Spanish Crown. Without the paternalism of the Missions the Indians realized the loss of their lands. California became troubled with the Spanish, the Indians, and the 'fgringosn fighting for its fertile fields. Through California's adoption into the Union, through the Civil War, land disputes raged between the old order and the new, the Spaniards and the Americans. From the time the first explorers coming through the bay had discovered the valuable land and brought settlers, a long and violent con- flict had raged, and was only settled by the decision of Congress in favor of the Americans in 1887. The Palo Alto Tree, a huge redwood, was first chronicled when Portola pitched his base camp un- der it in 1769, but the tree had been venerated for generations by primitive Indians of the region. Out- standing in this area because it is so far from its natural habitat, Senator Stanford once saved the tree, at a cost of fifteen thousand dollars, when the surrey for local railroad had marked it for cutting. Father .lunipero Serra, father of all the Califor- nia missions. Many times, on his travels between the missions via El Camino Real, he crossed what is now Stanford University property. .laan Bautista de Anza marched overland from Sonora, Mexico, in 1775, bringing the first colonists to San Francisco. The old Spanish Missions of California, typified by the tile roofs and cloistered walks of Mission Santa Barbara, were the models for the architecture of Stanford University. Mission San Juan Capistrano in particular was examined by the Stanfords while planning the building form of their memorial, and they found the Mission style with an inner quad- rangle which allowed for future expansion both prac- tical and appropriately Californian in appearance.

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