{ "address": "310 Dolores Street, San Francisco, CA 94114", "path": "/san-francisco/castro/dolores-street/310/", "hook": "The mission church of San Francisco de Asís, founded on this site in 1776 and an Article 10 city landmark.", "apn": "3566001", "block": "3566", "lot": "001", "eas_baseid": "359895", "coordinates": { "lat": 37.764308, "lng": -122.426981 }, "building_type": "institutional", "survey_name": "Mission San Francisco de Asís", "parcel": { "year_built": 1913, "use": "Commercial Misc", "property_class": "Churches, Convents, Rectories", "units": 0, "stories": 1, "rooms": 6, "bathrooms": 2, "construction_type_code": "B", "lot_area_sqft": 32216, "building_area_sqft": null, "zoning": "RH-3", "supervisor_district": 8, "assessor_neighborhood": "Mission Dolores", "analysis_neighborhood": "Castro/Upper Market", "note": "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." }, "assessment": { "roll_year": 2025, "assessed_land_value": 377502, "assessed_improvement_value": 3717065, "exemption": "Welfare", "exemption_value": 4094567, "last_sale_date": null }, "historic_status": { "ceqa_status_code": "A", "ceqa_status_code_article_10_11": "A*", "ceqa_status_label": "Historical resource; Article 10 individual landmark and individually listed on the National Register", "reason": "Article 10 Individual Landmark, National Register Individual, Historic Survey Result", "yearbuilt": 1913, "in_article_10_11_historic_district": false, "source": "sf-planning" }, "historic_district": { "name": null, "note": "A spatial query against the historic-district boundaries returns no district for this parcel; its protection is an individual landmark designation.", "source": "sf-historic-districts" }, "permits": [ { "number": "202504154417", "type": "otc alterations permit", "status": "complete", "filed": "2025-04-15", "completed": "2025-06-10", "estimated_cost": 1, "description": "revision to the 2024 ramp permit, correcting the scope and path of travel", "source": "sf-building-permits", "description_edited": "Revision to the 2024 ramp permit, correcting the scope and the path of travel." }, { "number": "202403198202", "type": "additions alterations or repairs", "status": "complete", "filed": "2024-06-10", "completed": "2025-06-10", "estimated_cost": 100000, "revised_cost": 311889, "description": "install a new accessible ramp at the courtyard entrance; the expanded restroom building spans the property line between this parcel and the adjoining church and museum parcel", "source": "sf-building-permits", "description_edited": "New accessible ramp at the courtyard entrance; the expanded restroom building spans the property line onto the adjoining church and museum parcel." } ], "narrative": { "lead": "The site was chosen for its harbor rather than its ground: the Mission was to be the nucleus of a seaport town guarding Spain's dominion here, on a peninsula with little tillable land and few Indigenous inhabitants within ten miles." }, "sources": [ { "id": "sf-eas-addresses", "name": "SF Enterprise Addressing System via DataSF", "query": "https://data.sfgov.org/resource/3mea-di5p.json?$where=address_number=310%20AND%20street_name='DOLORES'", "retrieved": "2026-08-04" }, { "id": "sf-assessor-roll", "name": "SF Office of the Assessor-Recorder via DataSF (2025 secured roll)", "query": "https://data.sfgov.org/resource/wv5m-vpq2.json?parcel_number=3566001&$order=closed_roll_year%20DESC&$limit=1", "retrieved": "2026-08-04" }, { "id": "sf-building-permits", "name": "SF Dept. of Building Inspection via DataSF", "query": "https://data.sfgov.org/resource/i98e-djp9.json?street_number=310&street_name=Dolores", "retrieved": "2026-08-04" }, { "id": "sf-planning", "name": "SF Planning Department — Historic Resource Status by Parcel via DataSF", "query": "https://data.sfgov.org/resource/3tsw-4idn.json?apn=3566001", "retrieved": "2026-08-04" }, { "id": "sf-historic-districts", "name": "SF Planning Department — Historic Districts via DataSF", "query": "https://data.sfgov.org/resource/63x5-g3m4.json?$where=intersects(the_geom,%20'POINT(-122.426980817%2037.764307502)')", "retrieved": "2026-08-04" }, { "id": "hittell-1878", "name": "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", "query": "https://www.loc.gov/item/rc01000675/", "retrieved": "2026-08-04", "supports": "Site chronology" }, { "id": "mission-dolores-context-statement", "name": "San Francisco Planning Department, with Roland-Nawi Associates, Carey & Company and consultants Katherine Petrin and Shayne E. Watson, Mission Dolores Neighborhood Historic Context Statement, prepared for the Mission Dolores Neighborhood Association, adopted July 20, 2022", "query": "https://citypln-m-extnl.sfgov.org/SharedLinks.aspx?accesskey=e312738442fad29bcb74b96538b857ca1a6e1bedd359bbfc0de2d4a255a1b7ae&VaultGUID=A4A7DACD-B0DC-4322-BD29-F6F07103C6E0", "listing": "https://sfplanning.org/project/sf-histories-historic-context-statements#completed", "label": "Mission Dolores Neighborhood Historic Context Statement, adopted 2022", "retrieved": "2026-08-17" }, { "id": "article-10-lm001", "name": "San Francisco Planning, Article 10 landmark designation: Landmark No. 1, Mission San Francisco de Asís (Mission Dolores) (ordinance, Planning Commission resolution and case report)", "query": "https://sfplanninggis.org/docs/landmarks_and_districts/LM1.pdf", "label": "SF Planning, landmark designation", "retrieved": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "loc-sf-call-1913-02-22", "name": "The San Francisco Call, 22 February 1913, p. 19", "query": "https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066387/1913-02-22/ed-1/seq-19/", "retrieved": "2026-10-05" } ], "historical_record": [ { "date": "1776-03-22", "kind": "site history", "summary": "Site selected", "description": "An expedition sent from Monterey selected the sites of the projected Mission and Presidio.", "source": "hittell-1878" }, { "date": "1776-06-27", "kind": "site history", "summary": "Founding party arrived", "description": "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.", "source": "hittell-1878" }, { "date": "1776-10-08", "kind": "site history", "summary": "Mission dedicated", "description": "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.", "source": "hittell-1878" }, { "date": "1777-06-01", "kind": "site history", "summary": "First baptisms", "description": "The first three converts were received into the church on the same day.", "source": "hittell-1878" }, { "date": "1783", "kind": "site history", "description": "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.", "source": "mission-dolores-context-statement" }, { "date": "1788", "kind": "building contract", "description": "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.", "source": "mission-dolores-context-statement" }, { "date": "1791-04-02", "kind": "site history", "description": "The church was dedicated.", "source": "mission-dolores-context-statement" }, { "date": "1808/1818", "kind": "site history", "summary": "Earthquakes", "description": "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.", "source": "hittell-1878" }, { "date": "1835", "kind": "site history", "summary": "Secularization", "description": "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.", "source": "hittell-1878" }, { "date": "1876", "kind": "site history", "description": "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.", "source": "mission-dolores-context-statement" }, { "date": "1906-04-18", "kind": "site history", "description": "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.", "source": "mission-dolores-context-statement" }, { "date": "1913", "kind": "building contract", "description": "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.", "source": "mission-dolores-context-statement" }, { "date": "1913-02-22", "kind": "building contract", "description": "Central Iron Works contracted to supply and erect the structural steel for a new church on the corner.", "source": "loc-sf-call-1913-02-22", "cross_streets": "SW corner of 16th Street and Dolores" }, { "date": "1918", "kind": "building contract", "description": "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.", "source": "mission-dolores-context-statement" }, { "date": "1918-12-25", "kind": "site history", "description": "The first mass was held in the concrete-and-steel basilica.", "source": "mission-dolores-context-statement" }, { "date": "1968-04-11", "kind": "designation", "description": "Designated San Francisco Landmark No. 1, Mission San Francisco de Asís (Mission Dolores).", "source": "article-10-lm001" } ], "historic_survey": { "survey": "Mission Dolores Neighborhood Historic Context Statement, adopted 2022", "source": "mission-dolores-context-statement", "here_today_page": true, "address_as_surveyed": "310–320 Dolores Street", "finding": "Listed in or formally determined eligible for the National Register and the California Register", "note": "Listed as Mission Dolores and as San Francisco Landmark No. 1, designated in 1968. The statement gives the landmark's boundaries as covering both the mission of about 1781–1791 and the basilica of about 1918 and as spanning Assessor Block 3566, Lots 1 and 2. The Department recommends the designation report be amended, in consultation with community members, to cover the American Indian community — particularly the Ramaytush Ohlone — before, during and after the Mission era." }, "unknowns": [ "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.", "The landmark designation dates the adobe church 1782–1791 and Willis Polk's restoration to 1920; the Mission Dolores context statement gives 1788 for the start of construction and 1918 for the restoration." ], "city_landmark": { "name": "Mission San Francisco de Asís (Mission Dolores)", "number": 1, "source": "article-10-lm001" }, "photo": { "file": "assets/photo.jpg", "width": 1280, "height": 960, "author": "User DaveOinSF on en.wikipedia", "license": "Public domain", "cropped": true, "source_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mission_San_Francisco_de_Asis_old.jpg", "retrieved": "2026-10-23" } }