Landmark 6
Old Saint Patrick's Church and Holy Cross Parish Hall
1820 Eddy Street At Scott
Western Addition
Built 1854
1854
The Jesuits of St. Ignatius College, San Francisco's first institution
of higher education, build a small wooden church at the corner of Market
and New Montgomery and consecrate it to Saint Patrick.
1873
The neighborhood has become too grand for a modest parish church.
A new Saint Patrick's Church
has opened nearby on Mission Street. The property at
Market and New Montgomery has been sold to William Ralston for
construction of the first Palace Hotel.
The little church moves to Eddy Street between Laguna and Octavia
and rechristened Saint John the Baptist Church.
1885
Despite its lack of pretension, Old Saint Patrick's is made the
pro-cathedral for Archbishop Patrick W. Riordan, an honor which
will last until a grander Roman Catholic Cathedral is completed in
1891, and Old Saint Patrick's once again takes to the road.
1891
The little church moves to its present location on Eddy Street between
Scott and Divisadero and assumes yet another identity, Holy
Cross Parish Church.
1899
The new Holy Cross Parish Church opens next door, and Old
Saint Patrick's is demoted to Parish House for the new church.
1906
Both the new and old churches survive the Earthquake.
2004
Old Saint Patrick's is thought to be the oldest frame church
in San Francisco and the only surviving example of the Greek Revival
Style predominant in Gold-Rush San Francisco.
Both the 1854 church and the 1899 church are being reincarnated as
Buddhist temples.
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