Mission San Juan Bautista

Mission San Juan Bautista was built in 1797 and is located in California. The steeple shown in this 1920 photograph was not original to the building and was removed during a 1949 restoration. The church was featured in the 1958 Alfred Hitchcock film Vertigo, and the bell tower shown in the film was created using special effects.

Image: “Mission San Juan Bautista” (c. 1920). From the San Luis Obispo County Regional Photograph Collection, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo