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Kenneth A. Larson has a quarter century of experience in design and construction of scenery for the Entertainment Industry and Theme Parks using Computer Aided and Traditional approaches to Design. Also experience in other areas of Design.

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Mission La Purisima Concepción - Photography Gallery

Select photographs of my many visits to the California Missions build by Spain and Mexico between 1769 and 1823.

#11, La Purisima Concepción. Founded December 8, 1787 by Father Fermin Lasuen. Lompoc.

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Personal Observations

La Purisima is probably my favorite mission. It is beautifully restored and sits on a large site. There are large animal enclosures and fields in a small valley. The chapel is no longer used, but many of the work areas are restored.

Mission Art & Photo-Art

History
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Address and Directions
2295 Purisima Road
Lompoc, CA 93436
From Highway 101, exit at State Highway 246 west at Buellton. (My recommendation is stop at Andersens for something to eat.) (Mission Santa Ines is only about five miles east of Buellton on the same highway 246.) After about 14 miles, right onto Purisima Road for about a mile. The mission is on the right.
Daily 9-5.

Photography Gallery

Panorama of this large mission. 11-2-02.

From parking lot. 4-4-92.	Across a large field. 11-2-02.
Alter. 11-2-02.	Alter. 4-4-92.
Grounds. 4-4-92.	Bell tower and lether drying. 11-2-02.

Bird nest under an eave.4-4-92.

Bell Tower. 4-4-92.

Work room interior. 11-2-02.	Grinding wheel. 11-2-02.
This is the only mission that I have been to that has farm animals. 4-4-92.	This is the only mission that I have been to that has farm animals. 11-2-02.

This mission is unusual in that after the original 1787 mission was destroyed by an earthquakein 1812, a new mission was founded on a new site in 1813. Originally built in what is now the City of Lompoc, it is now across the river and about four miles east of town. 4-4-92.

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This page last updated 10-6-04

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