Entre, Es Su Casa, Amigo. The Story of Frank A. Miller

Above: The Glenwood Inn in the 1880s. Frank

Miller’s father, Christopher Columbus Miller, first built and

owned the Inn.

Below: The Mission Inn in 1925. Frank Miller, now the owner of the Inn, is riding the dark

horse on the right.

Frank Miller dressed as “Father Frank” in

padre’s robes at the top of Mt. Rubidoux.

Frank Miller (top right) with other

founders of Riverside County in

1893.

Above and right: Images of March Field in the 1920s

and 1930s

In 1929, Miller was honored by the Japanese emperor in a ceremony at the Mission Inn where he

received the Fourth Degree of Merit of Meiji with the Small Order of

the Rising Sun.

Above: Frank Miller with his daughter, Allis, in

1882. Allis later married DeWitt Hutchings and the couple ran the hotel after her father died in 1935.

Below: Allis Hutchings in the

Court of the Bells at the Mission Inn, date unknown. What year

do you think this might be?