Mission Brewery
In terms of architecture, San Diego’s Mission Brewery is significant because it is the only example of an application of the Mission Revival style to a purely industrial building design in San Diego and one of a few across the country. In 1913, owner August Lang, long a fixture of the San Francisco Bay Area brewing and bottling scene, commissioned a new brewery designed by Chicago architect Richard Greisser. The San Diego Union, in a review, stated that it was the first Mission style brewery to be built in the United States. It only served as a brewery for five years before it was forced to shut down due to Prohibition. The building became a hospital annex during the 1918 influenza epidemic and then a seaweed processing plant into the 1980s. It is now home to Latchkey Brewing Company. The building is on the National Register of Historic Places.
San Diego, San Diego County
Photographer: John Bare