The First Unitarian Church of Oakland is located in western Downtown Oakland, California. The church building was designed in 1889 by Walter J. Mathews and construction took place between 1890 and 1891.
This solid masonry Romanesque Revival style church departed radically from California's then predominant wood framed Carpenter Gothic style churches. The building is noted for its famous stained glass windows produced by Goodhue of Boston, and for its arching redwood spans that were the widest at the time west of the Rocky Mountains.
The 1906 San Francisco earthquake damaged the building, but did not destroy it. The church is listed as California Historical Landmark #896 and is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It remains a significant cultural and architectural landmark in Oakland.
Address: 14th Street 685, Oakland. It is a member of the Unitarian Universalist Association, and the site was purchased in November 1888 from Jane K. Sather, a patron of the University of California.
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