310 Dolores Street

1. March 22, 1776

   Site selected

   An expedition sent from Monterey selected the sites of the projected Mission and Presidio.

   John S. Hittell, A History of the City of San Francisco and Incidentally of the State of California (San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft & Company, 1878), sections 12–14, 24 and 27
2. June 27, 1776

   Founding party arrived

   The train of founders, which had left Monterey on 17 June under Friars Francisco Palou and Benito Cambon with seven married civilian settlers and seventeen married dragoons under Don José Moraga, reached the site of the Mission.

   John S. Hittell, A History of the City of San Francisco and Incidentally of the State of California (San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft & Company, 1878), sections 12–14, 24 and 27
3. October 8, 1776

   Mission dedicated

   A procession of the whole male population walked from the Presidio bearing the banner of the cross and an image of St. Francis; Palou chanted a mass and preached on the founder of his order, and the soldiers and sailors fired salutes of musketry.

   John S. Hittell, A History of the City of San Francisco and Incidentally of the State of California (San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft & Company, 1878), sections 12–14, 24 and 27
4. June 1, 1777

   First baptisms

   The first three converts were received into the church on the same day.

   John S. Hittell, A History of the City of San Francisco and Incidentally of the State of California (San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft & Company, 1878), sections 12–14, 24 and 27
5. 1783

   Palóu moved the mission quadrangle to this site, possibly because the earlier buildings stood on valuable agricultural land, and the foundation of the present church was laid.

   Mission Dolores Neighborhood Historic Context Statement, adopted 2022
6. 1788

   Construction of the present church began. Over 30,000 adobe bricks were made during the three years of building, by the forced labour of American Indians at the mission.

   Mission Dolores Neighborhood Historic Context Statement, adopted 2022
7. April 2, 1791

   The church was dedicated.

   Mission Dolores Neighborhood Historic Context Statement, adopted 2022
8. 1808/1818

   Earthquakes

   The 1808 earthquake shattered the houses at the presidio; in 1812 the church at San Juan Capistrano was thrown down and the buildings at Purisima, Santa Inez, San Buenaventura and Santa Barbara injured; in 1818 Santa Clara suffered enough to require a new church. No damage at this Mission is recorded in any of the three, and no account has been found that its church was ever rebuilt or seriously injured.

   John S. Hittell, A History of the City of San Francisco and Incidentally of the State of California (San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft & Company, 1878), sections 12–14, 24 and 27
9. 1835

   Secularization

   The friars were deprived of control of the Mission property and Gumecindo Flores was appointed administrator; cultivation was neglected, the Indians left, and there was soon nothing to divide.

   John S. Hittell, A History of the City of San Francisco and Incidentally of the State of California (San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft & Company, 1878), sections 12–14, 24 and 27
10. 1876

    The St. Francis Catholic Church was completed next to the mission sanctuary — a Gothic Revival brick building with a steeply pitched gable roof and a central bell-tower entry.

    Mission Dolores Neighborhood Historic Context Statement, adopted 2022
11. April 18, 1906

    The St. Francis Catholic Church was badly damaged by the earthquake and later demolished; the mission chapel and cemetery escaped the fire, which firefighters stopped at Dolores Street.

    Mission Dolores Neighborhood Historic Context Statement, adopted 2022
12. 1913

    Built.

13. 1913

    The cornerstone of the Mission Dolores Basilica was laid, to an austere Mission-style design by Frank T. Shea and John O. Loftquist. Shea, a Beaux-Arts trained architect known as the church builder of San Francisco, had already designed Holy Cross Church, St. Brigid's, St. Vincent de Paul, Nuestra Señora Guadelupe and St. Paul's; Loftquist served as his engineer.

    Mission Dolores Neighborhood Historic Context Statement, adopted 2022
14. 1918

    Willis Polk restored the mission, photographing the roof before removing it, setting a steel framework beneath it and returning the original rafters and their buckskin thongs, reusing the original tiles where he could and tinting new ones to match.

    Mission Dolores Neighborhood Historic Context Statement, adopted 2022
15. December 25, 1918

    The first mass was held in the concrete-and-steel basilica.

    Mission Dolores Neighborhood Historic Context Statement, adopted 2022
16. Jun 2024

    Permit 202403198202 $$$ $100,000

    New accessible ramp at the courtyard entrance; the expanded restroom building spans the property line onto the adjoining church and museum parcel.

17. Apr 2025

    Permit 202504154417 $$$ $1

    Revision to the 2024 ramp permit, correcting the scope and the path of travel.

The roll reports no building area for this parcel. Business and institutional addresses are usually deferred on this site; this page exists because the address was named in the prompting source. Which structures on the parcel the assessor's and Planning's 1913 date describes is unresolved — the adobe church dedicated on this site in 1791 is older than that, and neither dataset resolves the difference; the roll leaves the building area at zero; and which of the two lots carrying City Landmark No. 1 holds which of its buildings is not stated.