Site of Old St. Mary's

Cornerstone 1853
Dedicated 1854

The first building erected as a cathedral in California, Old St. Mary's served the Archdiocese of San Francisco in that capacity from 1854 to 1891. Once the city's most prominent building, much of its stonework was quarried and cut in China it its brick brought "around the Horn" in sailing ships.

California Registered Historical Landmark No. 810

???? California State Park Commission ???? Paulist Fathers and the Grand ???? the Golden West, May 7, 1966.