St. Boniface Church, run by the Franciscans since 1887, is the oldest German Catholic Church in San Francisco, established in 1860, with antecedents back to 1852.

The church was long a mainstay of San Francisco's large early German community. It is one of the few reminders of that community's former prominence in the downtown.

The present Romanesque Revival building is a reconstruction of the third building in the history of the church, following the 1906 Earthquake and Fire.

Adapted from City Planning Commission Resolution 9916 dated January 12, 1984.