The San Francisco Directory, 1874, Part 256

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Services are held every Sabbath at eleven o'clock A.M. and half past three o'clock P.M. Sabbath School at half past nine o'clock A.M.

Officers. - William Brown, James Kirkpatrick, James Foster, John Smith, James Sullivan, and James McKay, Elders : Archibald Cooper (Presi- dent), William McCrindle (Treasurer), James Mc- Daniel, John McIlwaine, John Purdy, John Trotter, and Frank McConnell, Trustees.

Westminster Presbyterian Church.

Location, south side of Fell Street, between Octa- via and Laguna. Rev. ROBERT SCRIMGEOUR, Acting Pastor ; residence, Buchanan Street, between Fell and Oak.

Services every Sabbath at eleven o'clock A.M. and seven o'clock P.M. Sabbath School at two o'clock P.M. Officers .- J. B. Roberts, A. Hemme, John O. Doane, Isaac Cook, and Charles S. Capp, Trustees ; C. G. Athearn, Treasurer ; E. T. Cooper, Clerk.

Howard Street Presbyterian Church.

Location, east side of Howard Street, between Twenty-first and Twenty-second. Rev. SYLVESTER WOODBRIDGE, D.D., Pastor ; residence, Nineteenth Street, near Valencia.

Services every Sabbath at eleven o'clock A.M. and seven o'clock P.M.

St. John's Presbyterian Church.

Location, north side of Post Street, between Mason and Taylor. Rev. W. A. SCOTT, D.D., LL.D., Pastor ; residence, 521 Post Street.

This church was organized March 6, 1870, in Pacific Hall, by the Presbytery of San Francisco, with fifty- eight communing members. The number at present is three hundred and twenty-ono. Soon after its organization the congregation purchased their pres- ent beautiful place of worship from the St. James' Episcopal Parish, for the sum of $45,000, and have since expended $20,000 for improvements, making the total cost $65,000-the organ, which is a very excel- lent one, costing $10,000.

The Sabbath School connected with the church has five hundred members, and a library containing thir- teen hundred and seventeen volumes, with numerous diagrams of Bible places and scenos.

Officers .- Stephen Franklin, Edward Dillon, George Mearns, and G. K. Gluyas, Ruling Elders ; Henry M. Newhall, Thomas Breeze, N. G. Kittle, J. O. Roun- tree, David Porter, M. L. McDonald, Edward Roper, A. D. Smith, and Frank Henderson, Trustees ; S. Franklin, Sabbath School Superintendent.

Olivet Presbyterian Church.

Location, Tennessee Street, between Sierra and Napa. Rev. S. P. WHITING, Pastor ; residence, 1240 Howard Street.

This church is built on a lot of land, fifty by one hundred feet, presented by E. A. Lawrence, Esq. It was erected in 1871 at a cost of $4,500-81,000 of which was contributed by the Board of Church Extension of New York, and $2,800 by the neighboring inhabi- tants, leaving a debt of $700, which has since been paid. The church affords sittings for two hundred and fifty. Services every Sabbath at eleven o'clock A.M. and seven o'clock p.M.

Sabbath School at half past nine o'clock A.M. Rev. S. P. Whiting, Superintendent. Connected with the school is a library of five hundred volumes.

Officers .- Vincent Bellman, Nathan Davis, Charles Geddes, John H. Marquart, and C. F. Richards, Trustees.

· Memorial Presbyterian Church.

Location, Eighteenth Avenue near Railroad Ave- nue, South San Francisco. Rev. R. G. MCCARTHY, Pastor; residence, Fifteenth Avenue near Railroad Avenue.

The Memorial Presbyterian Church was incorpo- rated March 23, 1871, and a lot of ground fifty by one hundred feet on Eighteenth Avenue given by Elijah Case and Messrs. Thornton & Williams. The church accommodates one hundred and fifty, and was built at a cost of $5,000-$1,000 of which was contributed by the Board of Church Erection of New York, and the balance by neighboring inhabitants and friends of the church.

Services every Sabbath at eleven o'clock A.M. and half past seven o'clock P.M.

The Sabbath School connected with the church numbers seventy-five members, T. D. Jones, Super- intendent.

Officers .- Andrew J. Hare, Charles Geddes, R. G. McCarthy, Hugh Crocker, and John Gamble, Trus- tees.

Chinese Mission House.

Location, north-east corner of Stockton and Sacra- mento streets. Rev. A. W. LOOMIS, D.D., and Rev. I. M. CONDIT, Missionaries.

The house is brick, and was built by the liberality of the citizens of San Francisco, and by funds from the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, whose office is in New York, and by which this mission to the Chinese in California is supported. The house contains school rooms and rooms for a Chinese Chris- tian Association, a chapel which will seat nearly three hundred people, and apartments for the residence of a mission family.

Religious services in the Chinese language are held every Sabbath afternoon and evening, and also on Wednesday evenings. A Sabbath School is also held in connection with each of these three services.

An evening school is open throughout the week. It is free to the Chinese, and is taught by the mission- aries and other teachers who are supported by the Mission.

ROMAN CATHOLIC. St. Mary's Cathedral.

Location, northeast corner California and Dupont streets. Most Rev. JOSEPH S. ALEMANY, Archbish- op; Very Rev. James Croke, V. G .; Rov. J. Prender- gast, Rector; Rev. William A. Speckles and Rev. M. Slattery, Assistants: Rev. R. P. Brennan, Secretary; archi-episcopal and pastoral residence, 628 California Street, adjoining the Cathedral.

The erection of this noble structure was commenced on the seventeenth of July, 1853, during which year the basement portion was built, and the work was resumed the July following. Dedicated December 25, 1851. The church is seventy-five feet wide, front- ing on California Street, by one hundred and thirty- one feet on Dupont Street. Servico was begun at midnight on December 24, 1844. The basement por- tion is lighted from both sides, and well ventilated. The present expenditure for the building is $175,000. The church portion is forty-five feet high in the clear. and contains spacious galleries, and an organ loft. The ceilings are vaulted with a series of groined arches which are decorated, and every means have been resorted to for accommodation, light, and venti-

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lation. The church can seat twelve hundred persons. The tower is at present one hundred and thirty-five feet high, and when completed with a spire, will be two hundred feet high. The edifice is of Gothic archi- tecture, which has been carried out in every detail through the building. In all the arrangements for the erection of the church the greatest attention has been paid to the selection of the best material, and to the combination of strength and durability, which are admirably effected in its construction.

The present dimensions of the Cathedral not being sufficiently large for the vast congregation that at- tends it, it is intended to add about thirty fect more to its length. An archi-episcopal and pastoral resi- dence on California Street as also a beautiful and spacious baptistry, have been recently erected.

Attached to the Cathedral is a large day school for boys.

Masses: Sundays, at six in summer. and half past six in winter, half past seven, nine, and half past ten o'clock A.M .; week days, six, half past six, seven, and half past seven o'clock A.M .; Vespers, at seven o'clock Sunday evenings in winter, and half past seven o'clock in summer.

St. Francis' Church.

Location, north side of Vallejo Street, between Du- pont and Stockton. Rev. J. F. HARRINGTON, Pastor; Rev. A. Garriga and Rev. J. Valentini, Assistants. Pastoral residence, 519 Green Street.

This church was organized by Very Rev. Anthony Langlois, in the spring of 1849, through whose efforts a commodious frame building was erected in the month of December, 1849, and was the first Roman Catholic Church organized in San Francisco. Its ground base was forty by one hundred feet, one story in hight. During the year 1859-60, a large and com- modious church was erected, which was dedicated on the seventeenth of March, 1860. Its design is of the Gothic order, prevalent in the fourteenth century, presenting an illustration of the Christian architect- ure of that period. The principal features of this imposing structure are the towers, which project be- yond the body of the church, and present in the ele- vation four divisions, rising to a hight of ninety feet from the ground. The entrance porch, or vestibule, has two side aisles, a semi-octagonal sanctuary, and two sacristies, and is approached by a flight of ten steps, ascending to the vestibule, from which, at each side, are entrances to the galleries and baptistry, and in front are the pointed arched doorways which lead to the nave and aisles. In the contral space between the towers are the three doorways communicating with the vestibule, and thence with the interior. Over the central door there is a large and elegant three-compartment window, and in the gable a high- ly decorated rose window. Over each side door there is a lofty and spacious niche, which rises from richly molded brick corbels; there are also three marble panels with appropriate inscriptions, recessed in the brick work immediately over the doorway and gable; the work is finished with a massive and richly dec- orated cross.

The interior of this building has lately been com- pleted in the florid Gothic style. Its symmetrical proportions are admired by all the lovers of archi- tecture, and pronounced to be the most correct, and ranks now among the most elegant buildings in San Francisco.

The east and west sides of the structure are divi- ded by buttresses into eight spaces, in each instance, seven of which contain the large, pointed arched windows which light the church. Beneath the floor of the church there is a large, well-lighted basement, which is used as a school-room, and also as a place of meeting for the parishioners. The extreme di- mensions of the building are sixty-six feet front by one hundred and thirty-seven and one half feet in depth; from the floor to the foot of the rafters is thirty-five feet, and from the floor to the apex of the ground arches is fifty-six feet. Cost over $100,000.

Massos: Sunday at six, half past seven, nine, and half past ten o'clock A.M. Sunday School at two o'clock P.M. Vespers and Benediction on Sunday at seven o'clock P.M. Mass on week days at seven o'clock A.M.

St. Patrick's Church.

Location, north side of Mission Street, between

Third and Fourth. Rev. PETER J. GREY, Pastor; Rev. Thomas Larkin, Rev. P. Power, and Rev. Ed- ward Morrissey, Assistant Pastors.

This church, founded by the Rev. John Maginnis in 1851, was originally located on the corner of Mar- ket and Annie streets, where the congregation wor- shiped, and a large and flourishing Sunday School was maintained until the early part of 1872, when the present commodious edifice was completed. The in- terior of the new church is a vast space of eighty feet in width by one hundred and sixty in length, and seventy-five feet high, to the crown of the ceiling of the nave. The nave comprises the main hall, which is forty-four feet in width, and on each side are aisles of eighteen foet in width, separated from the nave by rows of sixteen fluted columns, eight on a side, from which spring the upper walls of the main build- ing. The ceiling is a succession of groined arches, and is beautifully frescoed in a ground of blue. The light is ample, there being thirty-six large windows in the wings and tier, and five in the chancel, all filled with stained glass. The windows of the chan- cel-which have not yet arrived from Munich-will represent St. Patrick, as a center piece, with the four Evangelists. Rows of niches are in the walls, between the windows, twelve of the most conspicu- ous of which hold statues of the twelve ApostIes.

A mammoth organ, which is intended to be the largest on the coast, is now making in Germany, and will soon be placed in the church. The lofty belfry, one hundred feet from the ground, will contain a chime of bells, the present to the church of Peter Donahue, Esq. The total cost of this great structure is about $175,000. At this date St. Patrick's is the largest and most costly church edifice in the State, and its lofty spire, supporting a large cross richly gilded with gold, two hundred and forty feet high, is one of the most conspicuous objects in the city.

Masses: Sundays, at fifteen minutes past six, fif- teen minutes past seven, eight, nine, and half past ten o'clock A.M .; during the week, daily, at half past six and half past seven o'clock A.M .; Vespers and benediction of the M. H. S., at half past seven o'clock P.M. A boys' school is held in the basement, at which there is an average attendance of nearly four hundred pupils.

St. Ignatius' Church.

Location, north side of Market Street, between Fourth and Fifth. Served by the Fathers of the So- ciety of Jesus, connected with St. Ignatius' College. The old building, dedicated July 15, 1855, being found too small for the rapidly-increasing congregation, the new hall of the College is at present used as a church, and accommodates about three thousand persons. The present portion of the institution cost about $160,000.

Masses: Sundays, at five, forty-five minutes past five, half past six, fifteen minutes past seven, eight, forty-five minutes past eight, half past nine, and half past ten o'clock A.M .; Vespers at half past seven o'clock P.M. Masses on week days at five, forty-five minutes past five, half past six, fifteen minutes past seven, and eight o'clock A.M.

Notre Dame des Victoires.

Location, north side of Bush Street, between Du- pont and Stockton. Rev. HENRI DE CLERCQ, Pastor; residence, 526 Bush Street.

The congregation was organized May, 1856, and its edifice dedicated on the fourth of the same month. 'The building was constructed by a society of Bap- tists, and at the date above given was disposed of to the present owners. It has a ground base of fifty by one hundred feet, is a very beautiful and massive brick structure, and with its basement, which is in- tended for school rooms connected with the church, has a capacity of comfortably seating seven hundred persons.

Mass on Sundays at eight o'clock A.M. ; Solemn High Mass at eleven o'clock A.M .; Mass on week days at nine o'clock A.M. Catechism, on Sundays, at half past two o'clock p.M., taught in the English and French languages, preparatory to communion for children from ten years and older. The course of preparation requires one year's attendance at the Sunday School, and time fixed for confirmation and communion is the first day of May of each year.

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Mission Dolores.

Location, southwest corner Sixteenth and Dolores streets. Rev. THOMAS CUSHING, Pastor; Rev. Dennis Keily, Assistant; pastoral residence adjoining the church.

The church was dedicated on the ninth of October, 1776, although projected in 1769, by Father Junipero Serra, the Father of the California Missions. The first Friar who had charge was Francisco Palou, who was assisted in his labors by Benito Cambon. At the organization of this Mission, and for its protec- tion, there were fifteen soldiers located at the Pre- sidio, under the command of S. Flores. A cemetery is attached to the church, in which the first inter- ment was made in September, 1776. The first Indian convert was baptized on the twenty-seventh day of December, in the same year. In the introductory portion of the San Francisco Directory for 1862, page five, will be found further details connected with the history of this Mission. Attached to this church is a large day school.

Masses at six, eight, and half past ten o'clock A.M. on Sundays and Festivals. Vespers at seven o'clock P.M.

St. Joseph's Church.

Location, west side of Tenth Street, between Fol- som and Howard. Rev. H. P. GALLAGHER, Pastor. Rev. Andrew Cullen and Rev. J. A. Gallagher, As- sistants; pastoral residence, adjoining the church.

This church was opened for divine service on the 8th day of December, 1861. The building first erected was a neat and substantial one-story frame, sixty feet long by thirty-seven feet wide, and stands on the one hundred-vara lot donated by Horace Hawes, Esq., for the future cathedral of the Arch-Diocese. The forementioned building, removed back for a school, has been replaced by a new edifice, over thrice the size of the above. It is cruciform Gothic, and ele- gantly finished. The new building is designed to be, as nearly as possible, earthquake and panic proof, the ceiling being done in finely finished wood, and the large entrance door to slide on rollers.

Services on Sundays and Festival days. Masses: Sundays at half past six, eight, nine, and half past ten o'clock A.M .; Catechism at half past nine o'clock A.M. and Vespers at seven o'clock P.M .; Mass: week days at seven and half past seven o'clock A.M.

St. Rose's Church.

Location, Brannan Street, near Fourth. Pastor (vacant). Attended from St. Ignatius.

This church was dedicated on the Festival of Pen- tecost, June 8, 1862. There is connected with the church a school for girls, in charge of the Sisters of St. Dominic, which contained, within one month after its establishment, one hundred and fifty-six pupils. There are now about four hundred girls in regular attendance.

Mass: Sundays at eight o'clock A.M.

St. Bridget's Church.

Location, southwest corner of Broadway and Van Ness Avenue. Rev. E. F. O'NEILL, O.P., Pastor; Rev. J. H. Derham, O.P., Assistant; residence, rear of church.

This church was completed and services first held in February, 1864. It is a wooden structure, cruci- form, nave thirty-six by forty-two feet, transept thir- ty by sixty feet, erected upon a valuable lot, pur- chased by Archbishop Alemany, at a cost of $1,400.

Masses every Sunday at half past six, eight, and half past ten o'clock A.M. and seven o'clock p.M. Cat- echism for the children at half past two o'clock P.M .; Mass: on week days at seven o'clock A.M.

St. Peter's Church.

Location, west side of Columbia Street, between Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth. Rev. THOMAS GIB- NEY, Pastor; Rev. Cornelius O'Connor, Assistant; pastoral residence, east side of Alabama Street, be- tween Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth.

The church edifice has recently been enlarged to accommodate the ever-increasing congregation.

Masses on Sunday at eight and half past ten o'clock A.M. Sunday School at half past nine o'clock A.M.

St. Boniface's Church (German).

Location, south side of Tyler Street, between Jones

and Leavenworth. Rev. JULIUS KRISTOFY, Pastor; residence, in rear of the church. Rev. S. Wolf, As- sistant Pastor.

This church was dedicated June, 1870. Services: Sundays, Mass at eight and half past ten o'clock A.M., and Vespers at half past seven o'clock P.M .; week days, Mass at half past seven o'clock A.M.

Church of the Holy Cross.

Location, Calvary Cemetery. Rev. JAMES LARGAN, Pastor; residence, 2220 Geary Street. Masses at eight o'clock A.M.

St. John the Baptist Church.

Location, north side of Eddy Street, between Oo- tavia and Laguna. Rev. JAMES LARGAN, Pastor; residence, 2220 Geary Street.

The parish church known as St. John the Baptist's, previous to its removal to the present location, was formerly the old St. Patrick's Church, the second erected in San Francisco, and was built by Father Maginnis. Since its removal it has been entirely renovated, replastered, and painted. Masses at half past ten o'clock A.M.

Chapels.

In addition to the services held at the different Ro- man Catholic Churches throughout the city, religious exercises take place regularly at the following insti- tutions : Presentation Convent Chapel, Powell Street; St. Rose's, Brannan Street; New Presentation Con- vent, corner of Taylor and Ellis streets; St. Mary's Hospital Chapel, Brannan Street; Magdalen Asylum Chapel, Potrero Avenue near Twenty-first Street; St. Mary's College Chapel, San José Road; St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum, South San Francisco; Sacred Heart College, corner of Larkin and Eddy streets, and St. Dominic Church and Monastery, northwest corner of Bush and Steiner streets.

SWEDENBORGIAN.

First New Jerusalem Church.

Location north side of O'Farrell Street, between Mason and Taylor. Rev. JOHN DOUGHTY, Pastor; residence, 1508 Leavenworth Street.

This society was organized February 15, 1852. It has erected upon an eligible lot, measuring fifty-five feet front by one hundred and thirty-seven feet deep, a very neat church edifice in the Gothic style, capa- ble of seating about three hundred and fifty persons, and at a total expense, including lot and church, of a little over $12,000. The seats are entirely free to the public.

There is a library connected with the church, con- taining all the theological and nearly all the scien- tific books of Swedenborg, both in English and Latin, and a large number of collateral works by various authors, explanatory of the New Church faith, which is free to all who desire to inform themselves con- cerning this peculiar religious system.

Services are held every Sabbath at eleven o'clock A.M. and half past seven o'clock p.M. Administra- tion of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper at the close of the morning service on the first Sunday in January, April, July, and October. Sabbath School at half past twelve o'clock p.M.

Officers .- C. C. Webb, President; Benjamin Shel- lard, Secretary and Treasurer; Charles Pace, D. W. Hunt, H. A. Gullixson, J. Mathewson, and O. David- son, Trustees ; Thomas S. Miller, Dr. A. Kellogg, John McCraith, E. Ekelund, E. A. Sawyer, S. Y. At Lee, and E. D. Feusier, Church Committee; G. II. Sanders, Secretary of the Society; D. W. Martindell, Librarian.

New Jerusalem Church.

Rev. JOSEPH WORCESTER, Pastor; residence, 814 California Street.

This society was organized April 3, 1870, with twenty-eight members.

Services are held every Sabbath in the hall, 413 Sutter Street, at eloven o'clock A.M. The Sabbath School meets at ten o'clock A.M.

Officers .- Oliver Eldridge, Chairman; J. H. Pur- kitt, Secretary; Lott Blanchard, Robert H. French, and David Wilder, Church Committee.

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UNITARIAN.

First Unitarian Church.

Location, south side of Geary Street, between Du- pont and Stockton. Rev. HORATIO STEBBINS, Pastor; residence, 16 Ellis Street.

This church was organized September 1, 1850. The first edifice owned by them was erected in 1852, on Stockton Street, between Clay and Sacramento. The first regular Pastor, the Rev. Joseph Harrington, ar- rived August 27, 1852, and died November 2 of the same year, of Panama fever. The second regular Pastor, Rev. F. T. Gray, arrived June, 1853, and left in June, 1854, and died in Boston in February, 1855. The third regular Pastor, the Rev. R. P. Cutler, ar- rived August 31, 1854, and continued his ministrationg without intermission until June 1, 1859, at which time he resigned his charge and left for New York. The Rev. John A. Buckingham then officiated as temporary Pastor until April 5, 1860. The Rev. Thomas Starr King arrived here with his family April 28, 1868, and commenced his ministrations the following day (Sunday) before one of the largest con- gregations ever assembled in this city.

During the period of Mr. King's ministry, the so- ciety extinguished a long standing debt of $20,000, and erected a new church on Geary Street near Stockton, at a cost of $115,000, all of which has been paid. It is one of the most beautiful structures our city contains, and is remarkable for the purity of its architectural design and its interior beauty.

Upon the death of Thomas Starr King on the 4th of March, 1864, Rev. Dr. Henry W. Bellows, of All Saints Church, New York, President of the Sanitary Commission, and one of the most distinguished and influential ministers of the denomination, responded to an earnest call from the society, and left New York within a few weeks to fill the pulpit thus vacated, for a period of six months. .

The Rev. Horatio Stebbins, of Portland, Maine, who had received an unanimous call from the society became the permanent Pastor the following Septem- ber. Since then the society has enjoyed its accus- tomed prosperity.

The pews of the church are not owned by individ- uals, but belong to the society whose organic laws re- quire that they shall be rented annually at auction to the highest bidder. A clause in the New Consti- tution of the society provides that the property shall never be pledged, mortgaged, or incumbered for any purpose whatever.

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The San Francisco Directory, 1874, Part 256

Author: Publication date: 1874 Publisher: San Francisco : Langley, Henry G. Number of Pages: 1128

Author:
Publication date: 1874
Publisher: San Francisco : Langley, Henry G.
Number of Pages: 1128