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HABS CAL,41-MENPA,2- (sheet 1 of 4) - Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Avenue, Menlo Park, San Mateo County, CA
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HABS CAL,41-MENPA,2- (sheet 1 of 4) - Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Avenue, Menlo Park, San Mateo County, CA
Depicted place California; San Mateo County; Menlo Park
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 24 x 36 in. (D size)
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HABS CAL,41-MENPA,2- (sheet 1 of 4)
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  • Significance: A year after the closing of St. Dennis Church, the first Catholic Church in the area, in 1871, this church was built as a mission. It gained the status of a parish church in 1877. The building, originally known as St. Bridget's, is one of the finest wood-framed churches in the county. The first school classes in Menlo Park were held at this church. Founded in 1872, this church was built as a mission, becoming a parish church five years later. Originally 36' x 67', the church was moved to its present site in 1878 after a brief intermediate stop. In 1887, the church was raised on a brick foundation and the transept and sanctuary were added, roughly doubling the size of the building. The rose window was added in 1900. The strict Gothic Revival form and details demonstrate a remarkable adherence to an older architectural idiom, perhaps in a deliberate attempt to blend the numerous additions with the original church building, as evidenced by: the symmetrical plan, central front tower, lancet windows, decorative wood buttresses, trefoil tracery, and a generally understated, minimal use of ornamentation. Even the latest additions in the rear are carefully incorporated into the overall Gothic form. The three part nave is spanned by a series of hammer beam trusses of redwood. Stained glass leaded windows line the walls dominated by an elaborate rose window set above the altar. The church has always acted as an educational, social, and religious center of Menlo Park, and remains today as a beautifully integrated history of the architecture and civic concern of the parish.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-190
  • Survey number: HABS CA-1995
  • Building/structure dates: 1872 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1877
  • Building/structure dates: 1878
  • Building/structure dates: 1887 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1900 Subsequent Work
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This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 80000855.
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ca0816.sheet.00001a
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Object location37° 27′ 14″ N, 122° 10′ 52″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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