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View north on Mission from Trumbull, workers repaving the Mission Viaduct. St John the Evangelist Catholic Church (1893), St. John's School (1910, later demolished) and St. John's Ursuline Convent (1916) in distance left. Holly Park and Junipero Serra Elementary School in distance right. [Repaving Mission viaduct dpwbook48 dpw10533]
Mission Terrace
View west on Cesar Chavez (then Army Street) across Harrison Leonard R. Flynn Elementary School (then LeConte School) at left. The grounds of Poetsch & Peterson Tannery at right. Road markings and fence paint indicate that this was the end of the widened Army Street at the time, the street was widened west of this point in the 1940s. [Army St. west of Harrison dpwbookSPECIMP16 dpwA6172]
Mission
View south across intersection to Old St. Mary's Church in background
Chinatown
View west on Bush from Grant, Notre Dame des Victoires and Victoria Hotel on the right
Downtown / Union Square
View south from Market St. Railway Boneyard. Man posing on Streetcar #1666; St. Anne's church and school in background.
Sunset Inner
Shriners at entrance to Mission Dolores
Mission Dolores
Russian Orthodox Church of Our Lady Kazan, 5717 California between 19th and 20th Avenues, built in 1909 but modified with what appears to be an additional floor after this photo was taken.
Richmond Outer
With ministries dating to 1894, the Cumberland Presbyterian Chinese Church at 855 Jackson Street took up residency in 1900 and it looks much today like it did in 1951.
Chinatown
View north across Waller to small First Baptist Chapel at 52 Waller Street, near the First Baptist Church at the corner of Waller & Octavia. Originally built in 1886 as a fire department storehouse for Engine Company No. 19, the building still stands in 2022, and has been renovated (glass block on sides replaced with opening windows and doorway inset further, removal of neon sign). The Victorian residence to the right has been moved or demolished.
Mint Hill
In 1937, Rt. Rev. Fr. Archimandrite George Kodjic purchased this home at 281 Castro Street, which served as a missionary home and chapel for the St. John's Serbian Orthodox Cathedral. In 1945 he willed the building and his estate to the church.
Corona Heights
Built 1909 and dedicated in 1910, 439 Guerrero Street originally was home to the First Swedish Methodist Episcopal Church (later renamed Simpson Methodist Church). By 1951 it was home to The Presbyterian Church of the Good Shepherd, by 2010 the Spanish Presbyterian Church. It is now a private residence.
Mission Dolores
1129 O'Farrell Street, north side of the street between Gough and Franklin. Just to the right of this home is the corner of St. Mark's Lutheran Church on O'Farrell, serving San Franciscans since 1894. These Edwardian flats were demolished as part of Western Addition redevelopment. The home to the left was owned by St. Mark's church and the church offices were on the first floor.
Cathedral Hill
2325 Union. South side of Union between Pierce and Steiner. Entrance to Episcopal Church of St. Mary the Virgin. Probably documenting changes around this time when the church's interior was reversed, placing the altar at the Steiner Street end, and the entrance off Union Street in a newly-created courtyard.
Cow Hollow
Now the home of the Bell Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, in 1951 1397 Palou at the corner of Keith was the home Reverend Napoleon O'Neal with an unnamed market in the basement.
Bayview
Built for Zion Lutheran Church, this 1908 wood Gothic structure designed by Frederick Boese was originally on the NW corner of 9th Avenue and Anza Street. It was sold to the Park Presidio Baptist Church in 1950 and moved to 856 Cabrillo.
Richmond Inner