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440 Dolores Street

Castro (Eureka Valley) · San Francisco, CA 94110

  • Built 1900
  • School building
  • Zoned P
  • District 8
  • Historic status: historic resource
  • City landmark (Article 10)
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234,635 sq ftLot area
  1. 1898

    The first Mission High School was completed on land formerly owned by the Jewish Cemetery Association — a monumental Renaissance Revival building by Charles I. Havens, and the first public comprehensive high school in San Francisco. A figure caption in the same statement dates it 1897.

    Mission Dolores Neighborhood Historic Context Statement, adopted 2022
  2. 1906

    The school survived the earthquake and fire and overlooked the refugee camp in Mission Park.

    Mission Dolores Neighborhood Historic Context Statement, adopted 2022
  3. May 2007

    Otc alterations permit.

    Issued Permit M68924

1 nominal $1 street-space or sidewalk permit is omitted from the timeline.

Not yet documented: the developer, the early tenants and the date of the last recorded sale. The assessor dates the building to 1900; Planning's historic resource survey records 1926. The statement dates Mission High School to a two-phased construction in 1925 and 1927 in one passage and to 1926 in another; Planning's historic resource survey records 1926 and the assessor's roll 1900. Submit an update