Mission San Juan Bautista - wikipedia Mission San Juan Bautista This article is about Mission San Juan Bautista in California. For other missions named `` San Juan Bautista '', see Mission San Juan Bautista ( disambiguation ). Mission San Juan Bautista A view of the restored Mission San Juan Bautista and its added three - bell campanario ( `` bell wall '' ) in 2010. Two of the bells were salvaged by Father Nick Senf in 2009 from the original chime, which was destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Location of Mission San Juan Bautista in California Location 406 2nd Street San Juan Bautista, California 95045 Coordinates 36 ° 50 ′ 42 '' N 121 ° 32 ′ 09 '' W ﻿ / ﻿ 36.845083 ° N 121.535889 ° W ﻿ / 36.845083 ; - 121.535889 Coordinates : 36 ° 50 ′ 42 '' N 121 ° 32 ′ 09 '' W ﻿ / ﻿ 36.845083 ° N 121.535889 ° W ﻿ / 36.845083 ; - 121.535889 Name as founded La Misión del Glorios Precursor de Jesu Cristo, Nuestro Señor San Juan Bautista English translation The Mission of the Glorious Precursor of Jesus Christ, Our Lord, Saint John the Baptist Patron Saint John the Baptist Nickname ( s ) `` Mission of Music '' Founding date June 24, 1797 Founding priest ( s ) Father Fermín Lasuén Founding Order Fifteenth Military district Third Native tribe ( s ) Spanish name ( s ) Mutsun, Yokuts Costeño Native place name ( s ) Popeloutchom Baptisms 4,106 Marriages 1,003 Burials 2,854 Secularized 1835 Returned to the Church 1859 Governing body Roman Catholic Diocese of Monterey Current use Parish Church California Historical Landmark Reference no. 195 Website http://www.oldmissionsjb.org/ Mission San Juan Bautista is a Spanish mission in San Juan Bautista, San Benito County, California. Founded on June 24, 1797 by Fermín Lasuén of the Franciscan order, the mission was the fifteenth of the Spanish missions established in present - day California. Named for Saint John the Baptist, the mission is the namesake of the city of San Juan Bautista. Barracks for the soldiers, a nunnery, the Jose 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 brought to live at the mission and baptized, followed by Yokuts from the Central Valley. Mission San Juan Bautista has served mass daily since 1797, and today functions as a parish church of the Diocese of Monterey. Contents 1 History 2 See also 3 References 4 Sources 5 External links History The church chancel with Easter decoration 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. Aerial view of Mission San Juan Bautista Following its creation in 1797, San Juan 's population grew quickly. By 1803, there were 1,036 Native Americans living at the mission. Ranching and farming activity had moved apace, with 1,036 cattle, 4,600 sheep, 22 swine, 540 horses and 8 mules counted that year. At the same time, the harvest of wheat, barley and corn was estimated at 2,018 fanegas, each of about 220 pounds. Father Pedro Estévan Tápis ( who had a special talent for music ) joined Father Felipe Arroyo de la Cuesta, at Mission San Juan Bautista in 1815 to teach singing to the Indians. He employed a system of notation developed in Spain that uses varied colors or textures for polyphonic music, usually ( from bottom to top ) solid black, solid red, black outline ( sometimes solid yellow ) and red outline ( or black outline when yellow was used ). His choir of Native American boys performed for many visitors, earning the San Juan Bautista Mission the nickname `` the Mission of Music. '' Two of his handwritten choir books are preserved at the San Juan Bautista Museum. When Father Tapis died in 1825 he was buried on the mission grounds. 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. The mission is situated adjacent to the San Andreas Fault, and has suffered damage from numerous earthquakes, such as those of 1800 and 1906. However, the mission was never entirely destroyed at once. It was restored initially in 1884, and then again in 1949 with funding from the Hearst Foundation. The three - bell campanario, or `` bell wall, '' located by the church entrance, was fully restored in 2010. An unpaved stretch of the original El Camino Real, just east of the mission, lies on a fault scarp. Although initially secularized in 1835, the church was reconsecrated by the Roman Catholic Church in 1859, and continues to serve as a parish of the Diocese of Monterey. The mission includes a cemetery, with the remains of over 4,000 Native American converts and Europeans buried there. 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 studio in Los Angeles. The tower does not resemble the original steeple. The tower 's staircase was assembled inside a studio. See also Spanish missions in California Rancho San Justo Teatro Campesino USNS Mission San Juan ( AO - 126 ) -- a Buenaventura Class fleet oiler built during World War II. References Jump up ^ Bennett 1897b, p. 153 ^ Jump up to : Krell, p. 241 Jump up ^ Ruscin, p. 121 Jump up ^ Yenne, p. 132 Jump up ^ Ruscin, p. 196 Jump up ^ Forbes, p. 202 Jump up ^ Ruscin, p. 195 ^ Jump up to : Krell, p. 315 : as of December 31, 1832 ; information adapted from Engelhardt 's Missions and Missionaries of California. Jump up ^ Robert Iacopi, Earthquake Country ( Menlo Park : Lane Publishing, 2004, 1971 ). Sources Bennett, John E. ( February 1897b ). `` Should the California Missions Be Preserved ? -- Part II ''. Overland Monthly. XXIX ( 170 ) : 150 -- 161. Forbes, Alexander ( 1839 ). California : A History of Upper and Lower California. Smith, Elder and Co., Cornhill, London. Jones, Terry L. and Kathryn A. Klar ( eds. ) ( 2007 ). California Prehistory : Colonization, Culture, and Complexity. Altimira Press, Landham, MD. ISBN 0 - 7591 - 0872 - 2. CS1 maint : Extra text : authors list ( link ) Krell, Dorothy ( ed. ) ( 1979 ). The California Missions : A Pictorial History. Sunset Publishing Corporation, Menlo Park, CA. ISBN 0 - 376 - 05172 - 8. CS1 maint : Extra text : authors list ( link ) Leffingwell, Randy ( 2005 ). California Missions and Presidios : The History & Beauty of the Spanish Missions. Voyageur Press, Inc., Stillwater, MN. ISBN 0 - 89658 - 492 - 5. Levy, Richard. ( 1978 ). William C. Sturtevant, and Robert F. Heizer, ed. Handbook of North American Indians. 8 ( California ). Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. p. 486. ISBN 0 - 16 - 004578 - 9. 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. Paddison, Joshua ( ed. ) ( 1999 ). A World Transformed : Firsthand Accounts of California Before the Gold Rush. Heyday Books, Berkeley, CA. ISBN 1 - 890771 - 13 - 9. CS1 maint : Extra text : authors list ( link ) Ruscin, Terry ( 1999 ). Mission Memoirs. Sunbelt Publications, San Diego, CA. ISBN 0 - 932653 - 30 - 8. Yenne, Bill ( 2004 ). The Missions of California. Thunder Bay Press, San Diego, CA. ISBN 1 - 59223 - 319 - 8. External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mission San Juan Bautista. Mission San Juan Bautista -- official site Early photographs, sketches, land surveys of Mission San Juan Bautista, via Calisphere, California Digital Library Vertigo on IMDb Listing and photographs of church at the Historic American Buildings Survey Listing, drawings and photographs of mission at the Historic American Buildings Survey Another view of the Mission Facade, circa 1980s Howser, Huell ( December 8, 2000 ). `` California Missions ( 105 ) ''. California Missions. Chapman University Huell Howser Archive. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System : Mission San Juan Bautista Mission San Juan Bautista Cemetery at Find a Grave Roman Catholic Diocese of Monterey in California Ordinaries Bishop of Two Californias Francisco García Diego y Moreno José Maria González Rubio Bishop of Monterey Joseph Sadoc Alemany Thaddeus Amat y Brusi Bishop of Monterey - Los Angeles Thaddeus Amat y Brusi Francisco Mora y Borrell George Thomas Montgomery Thomas James Conaty John Joseph Cantwell Bishop of Monterey - Fresno John Bernard MacGinley Philip George Scher Aloysius Joseph Willinger Bishop of Monterey in California Harry Anselm Clinch Thaddeus Anthony Shubsda Sylvester Donovan Ryan Richard John Garcia Churches Cathedral Cathedral of San Carlos Borromeo Parishes Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo Mission San Juan Bautista Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa Mission San Miguel Arcángel Holy Cross Church ( the former Mission Santa Cruz ) Education High school Mission College Preparatory High School, San Luis Obispo Notre Dame High School, Salinas Palma High School, Salinas Saint Francis Central Coast Catholic High School, Watsonville Santa Catalina School, Monterey Catholicism portal Franciscan missions in California San Diego de Alcalá ( 1769 ) San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo ( 1770 ) San Antonio de Padua ( 1771 ) San Gabriel Arcángel ( 1771 ) San Luis Obispo de Tolosa ( 1772 ) San Francisco de Asís ( 1776 ) San Juan Capistrano ( 1776 ) Santa Clara de Asís ( 1777 ) San Buenaventura ( 1782 ) Santa Barbara ( 1786 ) La Purísima Concepción ( 1787 ) Santa Cruz ( 1791 ) Nuestra Señora de la Soledad ( 1791 ) San José ( 1797 ) San Juan Bautista ( 1797 ) San Miguel Arcángel ( 1797 ) San Fernando Rey de España ( 1797 ) San Luis Rey de Francia ( 1798 ) Santa Inés ( 1804 ) San Rafael Arcángel ( 1817 ) San Francisco Solano ( 1823 ) Asistencias Nuestra Señora Reina de los Angeles ( 1784 ) San Pedro y San Pablo ( 1786 ) Santa Margarita de Cortona ( 1787 ) Santa Gertrudis Asistencia San Antonio de Pala ( 1816 ) Santa Ysabel ( 1818 ) Estancias San Francisco Xavier ( Castaic ) ( 1804 ) San Bernardino de Sena ( 1819 ) Santa Ana ( 1820 ) Las Flores ( 1823 ) Military districts First, San Diego ( 1769 ) Second, Santa Barbara ( 1782 ) Third, Monterey ( 1770 ) Fourth, San Francisco ( 1776 ) Sonoma Barracks ( 1836 ) Related Architecture of the California missions Mission Revival architecture California mission clash of cultures El Camino Real List of missions Catholicism portal Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mission_San_Juan_Bautista&oldid=842479944 '' Categories : Spanish missions in California San Juan Bautista, California 1797 in Alta California Museums in San Benito County, California Religious museums in California History museums in California Churches in San Benito County, California Cemeteries in California 1797 establishments in California California Historical Landmarks Roman Catholic churches on the National Register of Historic Places in California Roman Catholic Diocese of Monterey in California History of San Benito County, California Spanish Colonial architecture in California National Register of Historic Places in Monterey County, California Hidden categories : Coordinates on Wikidata CS1 maint : Extra text : authors list Talk Contents About Wikipedia Add links This page was last edited on 22 May 2018, at 18 : 42. 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