Experience Scottsdale: A List of Must-Do Activities

07 See historic Scottsdale at the Old Adobe Mission

Located in the heart of Old Town, the Old Adobe Mission was built by Mexican settlers in the early 1900s. Established initially as Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church, the building features Spanish Colonial architecture. Each of the 14,000 hand-placed adobe bricks is made of clay, sand, straw, silt, dung, and water and weighs 50 pounds. The Mission church is small and charmingly simple, but its 15 gorgeous stained-glass windows lend an ethereal touch. The church was named a historic site in 2001, and restorations began in 2002.

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