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District 9 · Block 3642, Lot 035 · ZIP 94110

Trinity Presbyterian Church

3261 23rd Street · Mission

  • 3 stories
  • 7,749 ft2 lot area
  • 16 rooms
  • 2 bathrooms
  • Wood frame
  • Zoned RH-3
  • Historic resource
  • City landmark #166
  • Individually listed on the National Register
Land$148,295
Improvements$447,508
Total assessed$595,803
Photo of Trinity Presbyterian Church
“Trinity Presbyterian Church (San Francisco, CA)” by Sanfranman59, cropped, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
  1. 1891–1892

    Built to designs by George W. Percy and Frederick F. Hamilton as Percy & Hamilton: a Bay Area vernacular Romanesque church, wood-framed and shingled on a brick base, with a steeple, a hammer-beam ceiling, stained glass and a pipe organ, seating 800. Apart from a partitioned balcony it was essentially unaltered in 1983.

    SF Planning, landmark designation
  2. 1892

    Trinity Presbyterian Church, designed by the firm Percy & Hamilton.

    Architecture, Planning & Preservation Professionals: A Collection of Biographies, adopted 2021
  3. 1900

    Assessor’s “built” date.

  4. 1906

    The church served as a relief centre for the city after the earthquake and fire.

    SF Planning, landmark designation
  5. 1919

    Trinity Presbyterian became Trinity Center under the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions, a church for a working-class Mission given to service to the community; in the Depression it ran relief for the unemployed, and later citizenship classes and maternity clinics.

    SF Planning, landmark designation
  6. 1984

    Designated San Francisco Landmark No. 166, Trinity Presbyterian Church.

    SF Planning, landmark designation
  7. Aug 1986
    Permit 8610154 $$$ $500,000

    Renovation of existing 2 stories & addition of basement.

  8. Feb 1988
    Permit 8801669 $$$ $1

    Re #8610154, delited basement addition.

  9. Jul 2012
    Permit 201207245649 $$$ $2,000

    Fix part of the roof, 1 pc. is 6' and other 5'. repair roof only.

  10. Sep 2016
    Issued Permit 201609208246 $$$ $3,700

    Ground fl: automatic ansul ul 300 fire system upgrade over existing kitchen hood.

  11. Nov 2017
    Issued Permit 201711073316 $$$ $21,850

    Reroofing.

  12. Sep 2021
    Issued Permit 202109017593 $$$ $40,000

    Reroofing. remove existing in-kind composotion shingles, replace with new composition shingles on room, class "a" fire rated, no change to facade, roofline, appearance. to comply with cool roof requirements per 2019 california energy code 141.0(b)2b.

  13. Oct 2023
    Permit 202310058126 $$$ $1,500

    Strenghen fire damaged roof joists from 1945.

  14. Oct 2023
    Permit 202310058144 $$$ $90,000

    Reroofing.

2 nominal $1 street-space or sidewalk permits are omitted from the timeline. 1 cancelled permit is not shown. The assessor dates the building to 1900; Planning's historic resource survey records 1890. The assessor's roll gives 1900; this address is recorded as built 1892.

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