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District 8 · Block 3558, Lot 074 · ZIP 94114

St. Nicholas Cathedral

2005 15th Street · Eureka Valley

  • 2 stories
  • 3,197 ft2 lot area
  • 6 rooms
  • 2 bathrooms
  • Wood frame
  • Zoned RM-2
  • Historic resource
  • City landmark #335
Land$60,037
Improvements$186,422
Total assessed$246,459
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  1. 1904

    The two-story wood-frame Gothic Revival church was built as St. Luke's German Evangelical Lutheran Church for the growing Eureka Valley population.

    SF Planning, landmark designation
  2. 1906

    A building permit was taken out to alter the front of the church.

    SF Planning, landmark designation
  3. 1914

    A window sash in the church was replaced.

    SF Planning, landmark designation
  4. 1930s

    St. Nicholas Cathedral, affiliated with the Moscow Patriarchate, has occupied this address since leaving Divisadero Street.

    Nina Bogdan, Russian American Historic Context Statement, San Francisco Planning Department, adopted by the Historic Preservation Commission October 15, 2025
  5. 1931

    The congregation renamed itself Bethel Evangelical Church.

    Mission Dolores Neighborhood Historic Context Statement, adopted 2022
  6. 1931

    The rear of the church was extended to hold an organ.

    SF Planning, landmark designation
  7. 1955

    The storage shed at the back of the lot was underpinned.

    SF Planning, landmark designation
  8. 1960

    The Russian Orthodox Church acquired the property and renamed it St. Nicholas Cathedral, adding the onion-domed finial and the Orthodox cross.

    Mission Dolores Neighborhood Historic Context Statement, adopted 2022
  9. 1964

    Dry rot was repaired, and the steeple's old wooden cross gave way to an onion-domed finial and a metal cross.

    SF Planning, landmark designation
  10. Nov 2016
    Permit 201611213251 $$$ $4,000

    Reroofing - (steeple roof. replace shingles in kind. no work steeple dormers. work limited to steeple roof. all fish scale shingles to remain.).

  11. Dec 2016
    Permit 201612013919 $$$ $18,000

    Tear off main roof. install 30 years shingles. revision to permit #201611213251.

  12. April 2, 2025

    Named a landmark candidate

    Put forward as a candidate for individual landmark designation at a District 8 community forum held by the district supervisor and San Francisco Planning, one of twenty-one buildings on the list.

    Corbett Heights Neighbors, "May Neighborhood News", Vol. VII, No. 5 (1 May 2025)
  13. April 30, 2026

    Designated San Francisco Landmark No. 335, St. Nicholas Cathedral.

    SF Planning, landmark designation

1 nominal $1 street-space or sidewalk permit is omitted from the timeline. 1 expired permit is not shown. The statement gives the building as constructed in 1904 as St. Luke's German Evangelical Lutheran Church and, in its chapter on modern development, as constructed in 1919. Construction is dated both 1904 and 1919. The onion-domed finial and Orthodox cross are dated both 1960 and 1964.

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