This Romanesque Revival building, the oldest Lutheran Church in the West, was designed by architect Henry Geilfuss. It suffered little damage during the 1906 earthquake and was saved from the fire by the dynamiting of the buildings on Van Ness Avenue one block away.

The circular apartment building in the first photograph is the Carillon Tower built after hundreds of Victorian homes in the Western Addition were bulldozed by the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency leaving a huge wound which has not healed.