{"nrhp_refnum":"78000755","name":"Calvary Presbyterian Church","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2501--2515 Fillmore St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"San Francisco","county":"San Francisco","state":"CA","lat":37.79271121000005,"lon":-122.43478985799999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-05-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A pair of adjoining church buildings, a sanctuary and a Christian education hall, at 2501 and 2515 Fillmore Street at Jackson Street in the Pacific Heights area of San Francisco, built 1900-02 to designs by McDougall Brothers.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the buildings are architecturally notable for continuing the Greek pediment and four Corinthian column theme of earlier Calvary churches, and for their stained-glass windows and blended facades. Much of the structure is the dismantled 1868-69 Geary-Powell church, rebuilt on the new site. The buildings also served the community after the 1906 earthquake and fire.","narrative":"Two connected church buildings on Fillmore Street in San Francisco's Pacific Heights make up this complex: a sanctuary and a Christian education hall, built in 1900-02 and designed by the McDougall Brothers. Their facades were joined so skillfully that they read as one building. A large share of the material came from the congregation's earlier church of 1868-69 at Geary and Powell Streets, which was dismantled and re-erected here, including bricks, pews, window frames and cast-iron gallery supports. The design carries forward a Greek pediment with four Corinthian columns found in all three Calvary church homes, and is noted for tall rounded stained-glass windows and dentilated cornices. The hall's interior has changed very little since construction. The buildings came through the 1906 earthquake largely undamaged and afterward hosted displaced congregations, Superior Court sessions and relief sewing for refugees. The sanctuary was extended in 1928 for a new organ.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":"J. H. McKay/McDougall Brothers","architectural_style":"Edwardian (c. 1900-1910), combining Neo-classical or Renaissance forms with Gothic elements; also described as classical/Romanesque with Greek Revival and Beaux-Arts influences","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as occupied, in good condition, in religious use; the sanctuary was designated a city landmark in 1977, while church members wished to demolish the education building.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:31.630233-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/78000755.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78000755/5da65a45bd-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78000755/5da65a45bd-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Sanfranman59","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Calvary_Presbyterian_(San_Francisco,_California)_3.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Sanfranman59</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Calvary_Presbyterian_(San_Francisco,_California)_3.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123861067","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvary_Presbyterian_Church_(San_Francisco)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14681689"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/san-francisco/calvary-presbyterian-church-78000755/"}