Mission San Juan Bautista, Plaza, Second Street between Washington and Mariposa Streets, San Juan Bautista, San Benito County, CA

See also HABS CA-38-4 (A-D) for additional documentation.
This is the second entry by Cate Bainton that has been awarded an Honorable Mention in the Holland Prize Competition.
2016 Leicester B. Holland Prize, Honorable Mention
Significance: Franciscan missionaries founded twenty-one missions on the Pacific coast of the Spanish colony of Alta California between 1769 and 1823. Control of Alta California shifted to Mexico in the 1820s and to America in the 1840s. Some of the communities that grew around the missions became major cities; some missions were abandoned and later reconstructed. Portions of El Camino Real, the road connecting the missions, became interstate or state highways. Mission San Juan Bautista was the fifteenth mission to be established, in 1797. Despite repeated damage from earthquakes on the adjacent San Andreas Fault, Mission San Juan Bautista was never moved from its original location and has been in continuous use as a church since its establishment. Its environs are still largely agricultural, its plaza has been restored to the spirit of its 1870 state, and its adjacent portion of El Camino Real is still unpaved. Noted architect Irving Morrow, landscape architect Emerson Knight, and mission restoration specialist Harry Downie played a part in the restoration of the buildings and landscape. Current and former mission sites are of archaeological interest.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N143
Survey number: HALS CA-84-A
Building/structure dates: 1797 Initial Construction