Presidents, Activists, Celebrities… Oh My! Movers and Shakers at the Mission Inn.

Presidents, Activists,

Celebrities… Oh My!

Movers and Shakers

at the Mission Inn.

The Glenwood Hotel, circa 1880.

The Glenwood Mission Inn, circa 1905-1910.

President William Howard Taft and his

infamous chair.

President Roosevelt replanting one of Riverside’s parent Navel Orange trees, 1903.

Booker T. Washington stayed at the Mission Inn in 1914, and later wrote Frank Miller about his

stay.*Letter courtesy of the Riverside Metropolitan Museum

Dear Mr. Miller,

When beautiful dreams are realized they enter lives dark as night and change their blackness into light.

Sincerely yoursHelen Keller

March 1915

Other notable visitors include…

John MuirJacob Riis

Susan B. Anthony

Andrew Carnegie

John F. Kennedy visited the Mission Inn as part of a five day Institute of

World Affairs conference in 1940.

He attended while still a student at Harvard,

and drafted summaries for round table

discussions.

Richard and Pat Nixon were married at the Mission Inn,

1940.

Ronald and Nancy Reagan honeymooned at the Inn,

1952.