1440 Newhall Street

1. 1886

   All Hallows Church built

   All Hallows Roman Catholic Church was built at Newhall Street and Palou Avenue for the neighbourhood's growing Irish Catholic population, who had until then worshipped in the chapel of the Mt. St. Joseph Orphan Asylum. It is the oldest Catholic church in the district.

   Kelley & VerPlanck Historical Resources Consulting, Bayview-Hunters Point Area B Survey: Town Center Activity Node — Historic Context Statement, prepared for the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency, adopted February 11, 2010
2. November 25, 1888

   “The imposing Catholic Church”

   A Morning Call account of a stage trip south along Railroad Avenue picked out “the imposing Catholic Church” among the freshly painted cottages and fir groves of South San Francisco.

   Kelley & VerPlanck Historical Resources Consulting, Bayview-Hunters Point Area B Survey: Town Center Activity Node — Historic Context Statement, prepared for the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency, adopted February 11, 2010
3. 1906

   Built.

4. 2015

   All Hallows Catholic Church, photographed in 2015, one of the Bayview churches with a long African American congregation. Identified in 2024 as eligible for local landmark, California Register or National Register designation.

   African American Citywide Historic Context Statement, adopted 2024

1 expired permit is omitted. The 2010 survey lists the church and its rectory as two properties on this one parcel — All Hallows Church at 1440 Newhall Street and All Hallows Rectory, remodelled, at 1715 Oakdale Avenue. Earlier sources address the church itself as 1715 Oakdale Avenue. The assessor dates the building 1906; the 2010 survey dates it 1886. The city's African American context statement gives the church as 1440 Newhall Avenue in a photograph caption and 1440 Newhall Street in its designation list. The Bayview Hunters Point redevelopment survey of 2004 dates the building here to 1886; the assessor gives 1906.