The Third Baptist Church Complex is listed as a San Francisco Designated Landmark since November 15, 2017.

[1] In August 1852, the First Colored Baptist Church congregation was founded in the house of Eliza and William Davis, by Black parishioners including the Davis family, Abraham Brown, Thomas Bundy, Harry Fields, Thomas Davenport, Willie Denton, George Lewis, and Fielding Spotts.

[9] The first location of the church building was founded in 1852 at the corner Grant Avenue and Greenwich Street in San Francisco.

Walker Home for Girls and Women, a charitable, community and social services organization for single African American woman new to San Francisco, who were not eligible to use the YWCA.

[11][12] The church building at 1399 McAllister Street was designed by architect William F. Gunnison and completed in 1952.