The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History is located immediately behind the Santa Barbara Mission in a complex of Mission-style buildings set in a park-like campus.

Situated on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean and bordered by lush gardens, the Mission-style building was designed in 1916 by Irving J. Gill for the philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps of the newspaper family.

In 1902, the Twentieth Century Club, a group of cultural, socially prominent women, built a Mission-style building to house their club.

The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum is a new Spanish Mission-style building atop a hill overlooking the Wild West interrupted occasionally by housing developments.

With her husband's encouragement, Dwan leased a tiny storefront in a Spanish Mission-style building on Gayley Street in the Westwood section of Los Angeles in 1959.

After the war, the hotel resumed business until the 80's, when the Mission-style building was converted to the Lido Beach Towers.

The Panida Theater, a refurbished Spanish Mission-style building that opened in 1927, is home to a range of cultural events all year.

Several handsome Mission-style buildings of concrete and tile, including a chapel, an old fire station, an officer's club and a commissary, remain where they were built in the 1930's and 1940's.

In 1905, the school relocated to a two-story Mission-style building on Bonita Avenue.

It's just as cute, but the streets, lined with Mission-style buildings, are less crowded, and the shopping is feasible.