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

The Glenwood Hotel, circa 1880.

The Glenwood Mission Inn, circa

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 yours Helen Keller March 1915

Other notable visitors include… John Muir Jacob 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 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, Ronald and Nancy Reagan honeymooned at the Inn, 1952.