Mission San Juan Bautista

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Another mission bearing the name San Juan Bautista is the Misión San Juan Bautista Malibat (Misión Liguí) in Baja California Sur.

**Mission San Juan Bautista**
Location	San Juan Bautista, California
A view of the restored Mission San Juan Bautista and its added three-bell campanario ("bell wall") in 2004. Two of the bells were salvaged from the original chime, which was destoyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
Name as Founded	La Misión de San Juan Bautista ^[1]
Translation	The Mission of Saint John the Baptist
Namesake	Saint John the Baptist
Nickname(s)	"The Mission of Music"
Founding Date	June 24, 1797 ^[2]
Founding Priest(s)	Father Fermín Lasuén
Founding Order	Fifteenth
Military District	Third
Native Tribe(s) Spanish Name(s)	Costeño, Yokuts
Owner	Roman Catholic Church
Current Use	Parish Church
Coordinates	36°50′42.3″N, 121°32′9.2″W
California Historical Landmark	#195

Mission San Juan Bautista was founded on June 24, 1797. Barracks for the soldiers, a nunnery, the Castro House, and other buildings were constructed around a large grassy plaza in front of the church and can be seen today in their original form. The Ohlone, the original residents of the valley, were converted and brought to live at the Mission, followed by Yokuts from the Central Valley. The town of San Juan Bautista, which grew up around the Mission, expanded rapidly during the California Gold Rush and continues to be a thriving community today. Mission San Juan Bautista has served mass daily since 1797. The structures suffered extensive damage in the earthquakes of 1800 and 1906; the Mission was restored initially 1884, and then again in 1949 with funding from the Hearst Foundation, and today continues to serve as a parish of the Catholic Diocese of Monterey.

1 Vertigo
2 Other historic designations
3 Notes
4 References
5 See also
6 External links

The Mission and its grounds were featured prominently in the 1958 Alfred Hitchcock film Vertigo. Associate producer Herbert Coleman's daughter Judy Lanini suggested the Mission to Hitchcock as a filming location. A steeple, added sometime after the Mission's original construction and secularization had been demolished following a fire, so Hitchcock added a "bell tower" using scale models, matte paintings, and trick photography at the Paramount Pictures studio in Los Angeles.

National Register of Historic Places #NPS-69000038 — San Juan Bautista Plaza Historic District

Actor Jimmy Stewart stands on the ledge of Mission San Juan Bautista's "bell tower" at the conclusion of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo. The Mission didn't actually have a bell tower, so one was constructed on the Paramount backlot for the film.

A glimpse of the sacristy at Mission San Juan Bautista, circa 1897.

A photograph of Mission San Juan Bautista taken between 1880 and 1910. The steeple (far right), constructed after the Mission was secularized, was subsequently destroyed in a fire.

^ Leffingwell, p. 121
^ Yenne, p. 132

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Levy, Richard. (1978). in William C. Sturtevant, and Robert F. Heizer: Handbook of North American Indians. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. ISBN 0-16-004578-9 / 0160045754, page 486.
Milliken, Randall (1995). A Time of Little Choice: The Disintegration of Tribal Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area 1769-1910. Ballena Press Publication, Menlo Park, CA. ISBN 0-87919-132-5.
Yenne, Bill (2004). The Missions of California. Thunder Bay Press, San Diego, CA. ISBN 1-59223-319-8.