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District 8 · Block 3567, Lot 034 · ZIP 94103

St. Matthew's Church

3281 16th Street · Mission

  • 2 stories
  • 5,144 ft2 lot area
  • 5 rooms
  • 2 bathrooms
  • Wood frame
  • Zoned RM-1
  • Historic resource
  • City landmark #334
Land$95,618
Improvements$340,761
Total assessed$436,379
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  1. 1886

    The lot was still empty.

    SF Planning, landmark designation
  2. 1905

    The lot remained vacant, and so had nothing to lose in the 1906 earthquake and fire.

    SF Planning, landmark designation
  3. 1907

    The German Evangelical Lutheran congregation built its shingle-clad Gothic Revival church here, with a rose window and bell tower, as St. Matthäus-Kirche, part of the first wave of rebuilding in the Mission after 1906; its cornerstone carries the date.

    SF Planning, landmark designation
  4. 1907

    The German Evangelical Lutheran congregation that built the church has owned and worshipped in it ever since.

    SF Planning, landmark designation
  5. August 12, 1964

    Photographed, showing St. Matthew's Lutheran Church.

    San Francisco Subjects Photograph Collection (SFP 162), San Francisco Public Library
  6. Aug 2010
    Issued Permit 201008279702 $$$ $9,780

    Reroofing.

  7. Mar 2012
    Permit 201203287052 $$$ $4,000

    Install fire alarm system for preschool in church.

  8. July 20, 2022

    Recommended for landmark evaluation

    Put forward for further evaluation as a potential city landmark: St. Matthew's Church appears eligible for local designation under Criterion 3 (Architecture) as a rare remaining example of Gothic Revival institutional architecture in San Francisco. Built by the German Evangelical Church in 1907 after the earthquake and fire, wood-framed and clad in wood shingles; its character-defining features are the siting of the building and its relationship to the street, the wood cladding, the roof configuration, the windows and doors with their transoms, surrounds and glazing, and the rose window, parapets, spires and fenestration pattern. A figure caption in the same document gives St. Matthew's Lutheran Church as 3321 16th Street, a separate parcel on the Mission Dolores block.

    Mission Dolores Neighborhood Historic Context Statement, adopted 2022
  9. 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)
  10. April 30, 2026

    Designated San Francisco Landmark No. 334, St. Matthew's Church.

    SF Planning, landmark designation

2 nominal $1 street-space or sidewalk permits are omitted from the timeline. 1 expired permit is not shown.

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