The Market Street location was later rebuilt as a larger brick church which attracted many of San Francisco's Catholics away from established parishes.

After the earthquake and fire, the college was hastily re-built on Hayes Street, a few miles west of old Van Ness Avenue site.

A rambling wooden structure, the high school portion of the new complex was known as "The Shirt Factory" and the buildings would stay there for some two decades.

One of the city's largest churches, its location on a hilltop as well as its twin spires and dome makes it a prominent San Francisco landmark.

[1] The Jesuit Provincial named Father Charles Gagan, S.J., long-time San Francisco native, as the third pastor in the church's history.

He immediately began a campaign to replace the roof and fix the dome and cupola; he also commissions new carpeting and flooring for the aisles.