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Building History

The architect Charles J.I. Devlin (1858-1928) designed the building to serve as a church when it was completed in 1888. The Archdiocese of San Francisco allocated part of the building for use as a school by 1895, and it fully transformed the faculity into a parochial school in 1916 by when another church was built nearby in the Mission District. At its height, the Sisters of the Holy Cross educated about 400 pupils at Saint Charles Borromeo.

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco closed the K-8 Saint Charles Borromeo School in 2017, due to dropping enrollment and the cost of seismically renovating the 130-year-old building. (Renovation costs were put publically at about $7 million.) The school had 81 students in 2017, a decrease of 107 from 2011-2012. (See Laura Waxmann, Mission Local.org, "St. Charles Borromeo School, a Part of SF Mission History, Will Close," published 02/18/2017, accessed 12/04/2024.)

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