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The Swedenborgian Church is a historic church complex at 2107 Lyon Street in the Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, California.Built in 1895 for a Swedenborgian congregation, it is considered one of California's earliest pure Arts and Crafts buildings, with design contributions by A. C. Schweinfurth, A. Page Brown, Bernard Maybeck, William Keith, and Bruce Porter.
During the April 18, 1906, San Francisco earthquake and its aftermath, the parsonage served as a feeding station and hospital. In 1964, St. Ansgar merged with First Finnish Lutheran Church. The name for the united church, St. Francis Lutheran Church, was derived from San Francisco.
It contains a 1926 pipe organ from the Schoenstein Organ Company of San Francisco, [2] which was enlarged in 1993. During the Beat movement in the 1950s, this church was an influential landmark in part due it is proximity to Caffe Trieste. [4] [5] Gregory Corso notably used this church's steps to perform poetry. [4]
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The church is a member of the San Francisco Council of Lutheran Churches. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The church was founded on August 10, 1882, by Augustana Lutheran minister Johannes Telleen , who served as its pastor until 1890.
The Black House was a building that formerly stood at 6114 California Street in San Francisco, California, in the United States. [1] The house was used by Anton LaVey as the headquarters of his Church of Satan, from 1966 until his death in 1997.
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Many of San Francisco's tallest buildings, particularly its office skyscrapers, [9] were completed in a building boom from the late 1960s until the late 1980s. [10] During the 1960s, at least 40 new skyscrapers were built, [ 11 ] and the Hartford Building (1965), 44 Montgomery (1967), Bank of America Center (1969), and Transamerica Pyramid ...