This 1926 photo of Mission Santa Clara burning was taken on October 25, 1926, when fire destroyed the 101 year old building. It may be used only with the permission of the
Department of Archives & Special Collections, Santa Clara University.
Historic buildings, like Notre-Dame de Paris and Mission Santa Clara, are often subject to fire because they were built long before the use of electricity. In older times, candles often started the fires in old buildings. In the twentieth century, primitive wiring, retrofitted on to these historic buildings is often to blame.
