Mission Cultural Center

1. 1947

   Shaff's furniture store was rebuilt as a three-storey reinforced-concrete building on the foundation and side walls of its one-storey predecessor, with the showroom and a mezzanine at the front and a furniture-repair shop at the back on Osage Alley.

   National Register of Historic Places nomination (draft), California Office of Historic Preservation
2. March 6, 1977

   The Mission Cultural Center opened in the old Shaff's building, which the City had bought for $400,000 after a campaign by the neighbourhood's artists for a Latino arts centre of their own; more than two thousand people came to the opening, a Mass said by the Nicaraguan poet and priest Ernesto Cardenal, who baptised children on the spot.

   National Register of Historic Places nomination (draft), California Office of Historic Preservation
3. August 13, 1977

   Galería Museo, the centre's gallery, opened with the Sixty-three Show of sixty-three works.

   National Register of Historic Places nomination (draft), California Office of Historic Preservation
4. 1982

   Carlos Loarca, with Manuel Villamor and Betsie Miller-Kusz, painted Spirit of the Arts, a 3,700-square-foot mural across the Mission Street front showing the work going on inside; its making was filmed as the documentary Anatomy of a Mural, and Loarca and Miller-Kusz restored it in 2017.

   National Register of Historic Places nomination (draft), California Office of Historic Preservation
5. October 1984

   A renovation designed by Rosekrans and Droder, Inc., finished in January 1987, replaced the original storefront, built a theatre with a stage and dressing rooms, filled in the mezzanine for gallery space and made seismic repairs.

   National Register of Historic Places nomination (draft), California Office of Historic Preservation
6. 1992

   The neon marquee reading Mission Cultural Center replaced the wood and plaster canopy over the entrance.

   National Register of Historic Places nomination (draft), California Office of Historic Preservation
7. Jul 1992

   Issued Permit 9211320 $$$ $12,000

   Sign.

8. May 1999

   Permit 9908817 $$$ $5,000

   Install exhaust fan and ducts including electrical.

9. Mar 2011

   Issued Permit 201103142026 $$$ $200,622

   Replace rooftop heating and ventilating units on same location. new units will be same size or smaller, lighter and not taller than existing ejquipments.

10. Aug 2013

    Permit 201308204763 $$$ $286,050

    Reroofing.

11. Feb 2015

    Permit 201502118089 $$$ $550,000

    Ada barrier removal by mayors office on disability upgrade ada accessibilites on entry door, counters, 3rd fl toilet rooms, interior doors and hardware replacement, signages, new ada lift from 3rd to 4th fl.

12. May 2015

    Permit 201505015145 $$$ $18,700

    Install new fire alarm system with nfs2-640 control unit, smoke det. above & pull station near panel. notification devices wil be installed thru=out floor area. tie-in existing waterflow & tamper & duct det to newpanel. install relay modules for elev recall, 2013 nfpa72 2011-0314-2026.

13. Jul 2015

    Permit 201507313022 $$$ $1,000

    As built to app#201505015145. remove shunt trip, relocate and add few notification appliances, add 2 temper switches.

14. Oct 2015

    Permit 201510210368 $$$ $15,000

    Modify existing fire sprinkler system demolition 1, relocate 8, install 2 new. add skylight head in scope of work area. total of 12 heads.

15. Mar 2016

    Permit 201603111824 $$$ $7,500

    Emergency evacuation sign permit.

16. Mar 2016

    Permit 201603162242 $$$ $1

    Exit door at 1st floor, no modification needed, revision for permit no. 201502118084.

17. Jun 2019

    Permit 201906193851 $$$ $950,000

    Priority project - voluntary interior toilet rooms, barrier removal and finishes replacement, minor barrier removal and finishes replacement, passenger elevator modernization, freight elevator replacement with service elevator. provide bottle filling station.

18. January 4, 2021

    Listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its place in the Latino arts and cultural movement in San Francisco.

    National Register of Historic Places nomination (draft), California Office of Historic Preservation
19. Feb 2021

    Permit 202102044092 $$$ $16,174

    Elevator modernization. addition of: six (6) smoke detectors, six (6) intelligent bases, six (6) relay modules.

20. Jun 2021

    Permit 202106092058 $$$ $1,600

    Evacuation maps (5).

1 nominal $1 street-space or sidewalk permit is omitted from the timeline. 4 expired permits are not shown.