An adobe structure, roofed with tiles, was completed in 1802, and, ten years later, destroyed by earthquake.
The next Mission founded by Lasuen was that of Santa Cruz.

On crossing the coast range from Santa Clara, he thus wrote: "I found in the site the most excellent fitness which had been reported to me.

I found, beside, a stream of water, very near, copious, and important.

On August 28, the day of Saint Augustine, I said mass, and raised a cross on the spot where the establishment is to be.

Many gentiles came, old and young, of both sexes, and showed that they would gladly enlist under the Sacred Standard.