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2005 15th Street

Castro (Eureka Valley) · San Francisco, CA 94114

  • Church
  • 2 stories
  • Zoned RM-2
  • District 8
  • Historic status: historic resource
  • City landmark (Article 10)
37.7659, −122.4291 Street View appears here once a Google Maps embed key is configured.
3,197 sq ftLot area
6Rooms · 2 baths
  1. 1904

    Built.

  2. 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
  3. 1931

    The congregation renamed itself Bethel Evangelical Church.

    Mission Dolores Neighborhood Historic Context Statement, adopted 2022
  4. 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
  5. 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.).

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

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

  7. 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)

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.

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