{"nrhp_refnum":"82002250","name":"St. Joseph's Church and Complex","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1401--1415 Howard St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"San Francisco","county":"San Francisco","state":"CA","lat":37.77350305500005,"lon":-122.41427058199997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-01-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A church complex at 1401-1415 Howard Street, San Francisco, made up of St. Joseph's Church (1913-14), a parish hall (1906) and a rectory (1906), on a 1.34-acre lot at 10th and Howard Streets. The church was designed by architect John J. Foley.","why_significant":"The complex represents the rebuilding of a major parish after the 1906 earthquake and fire. The church is a highly intact example of Romanesque Revival architecture. It also reflects the parish's change from Irish Catholic to the largest Filipino parish in the United States, and it houses the national shrine of Filipinos in the United States.","narrative":"St. Joseph's Church and its neighboring buildings occupy a corner lot at 10th and Howard Streets in San Francisco's South of Market area. The parish has been on the site since 1861, but its earlier church and schools burned after the April 1906 earthquake. A wood-frame parish hall, built as a temporary church and school, and a stucco-covered masonry rectory went up that year. The present church followed in 1913-14, designed by John J. Foley in the Romanesque Revival style. Its steel-framed, stucco-covered brick walls, rose windows and two golden-domed towers remain largely unaltered, and the interior keeps its original oak pews, organ, imported stained glass and statuary. The surrounding neighborhood became industrial, and the congregation shifted from Irish families to Latin American, Pacific Islander and especially Filipino parishioners. The church now holds the marble shrine of the Santo Nino de Cebu, dedicated in 1980 as a national shrine for Filipinos in the United States.","period_of_significance":"1906-1914","architect_builder":"John J. Foley","architectural_style":"Romanesque Revival (church); Renaissance Revival (rectory); parish hall with a mild Mission Revival quality","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and in use as a religious property; described as in good condition, with the church interior remarkably unaltered.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:31.320732-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/82002250.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82002250/0177165edb-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82002250/0177165edb-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Sanfranman59","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Joseph%27s_Church_(San_Francisco).JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Sanfranman59</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Joseph%27s_Church_(San_Francisco).JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123861319","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Joseph%27s_Church_and_Complex","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7589118"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/san-francisco/st-josephs-church-and-complex-82002250/"}