"Even before a magnitude 6.5 earthquake rocked the area Dec. 22, 2003, the church had fallen into such serious disrepair that building inspectors threatened to close it. Then the quake buckled walls, smashed religious statues and turned wide cracks into chasms, forcing authorities to shutter a building so old its beams had been hauled by mule from forests 40 miles away."
The Los Angeles Times details the debate over who should fund Mission San Miguel's needed repairs, now that it has made the National Trust for Historic Preservation's 2006 list of endangered places.
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