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Building History

According to a contemporary account in the Oakland Tribune, the church was to seat 300 parishioners and cost $15,000.

The architectural writer John Beach said of the Park Congregational Church in the book Bay Area Houses (1988): "Park Congregational Church, built in 1910, is remarkable for the flexibility of its interior. A series of vertically sliding partitions can be used to enclose the central portion of the sanctuary, transforming it into an intimate space for small groups. As successive dividers raised out of the way, the sanctuary gathers to itself several subsidiary spaces culminating in an eight-segmented fan-shaped Sunday School auditorium which is wider that the sanctuary itself. The separate identity of these successive spaces is clearly echoed in the exterior of the building, creating a composition of superimposed surprises." (See John Beach, "The Bay Area Tradition, 1890-1918," in Bay Area Houses, Sally Woodbridge, ed., [Salt Lake City: Gibbs-Smith Publishers, 1988], pp. 83-84.)

Alteration

A renovation effort began in late 2005; Van Brunt Associates of Walnut Creek, CA, became involved with this undertaking.