Mission San Conrado

The new mission chapel was designed by Brown & Avila, architects and will be built by Alex Sutherland, general contractor. In 1939 Fr. Matin was pastor of El Santo Nino Church located at what is now a portion of the Dodger Stadium parking lot beyond center field. Even then the hill-locked Solano Ave. residents were isolated, and the Claretian pastor decided they needed their own chapel and catechetical center. A large home became available in the development of a city playground , and a site was donated by Mrs. Juanita Rodela and her daughter, Mrs. Frances Schutte. Fr. Matin had the home moved to teh nearby site.