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NOV 2013

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SPA HOPPING Some of the Inn's more luxurious suites feature patios and fireplaces. Carnegie and Henry Ford; naturalist John Muir; educator and author Booker T. Washington; famed French actress Sarah Bernhardt; and even princes and princesses of Sweden and Japan graced the hotel's halls. (Portraits hanging throughout The Mission Inn's Presidential Lounge still pay homage to some of these lauded guests.) Meanwhile, Frank Miller proved himself a true renaissance man, traveling around the world to collect works of art and artifacts for display at the hotel, creating a multi"The Mission Inn is a labor of love and our continued commitment to the city of Riverside. There is enormous pride, tradition and a genuine sense of community at the Inn. It is thanks to the efforts KELLY ROBERTS of our great staff and the local non-profit organization, Friends of The Mission Inn, that we're able to experience the Inn as our parents and grandparents did, and that our children and their children will be able to enjoy it in the years to come. As a hotel, there is nothing quite like The AAA Four Diamond, Historic Mission Inn Hotel & Spa anywhere else in the world. It is truly magical and one of a kind." 26 DAYSPA | NOVEMBER 2013 denominational chapel, art galleries and music room for the facility, and co-founding the Institute of World Affairs (IWA) to help build greater communication and understanding among nations—and give the organization a grand location in which to meet. After Miller died in 1935, his heirs continued to run the Inn. John F. Kennedy attended an IWA event there; future president Richard Nixon married Patricia Ryan there; and Ronald and Nancy Reagan's wedding night took place there as well. From the 1950s through the 1980s, The Mission Inn changed hands several times. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1977, but despite numerous expansions and renovations, without a consistent and attentive owner, it began to suffer from lack of care, heart and spirit. Then Duane and Kelly Roberts came into the picture. "Growing up in Riverside, Duane often visited The

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