Glide church granted federal historic status
Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco is now an official federal historic site, adding one more property important to LGBTQ history to the National Register of Historic Places.
The Keeper of the National Register in Washington, D.C. officially listed the religious institution on March 14.It followed the California State Historical Resources Commission unanimously voting in January to support the liberal congregation's Tenderloin sanctuary plus an adjacent apartment building at 330 and 302 Ellis Street be added to the register.
News of its being approved as a national historic place was shared with the San Francisco Board of Supervisors as part of its April 26 meeting packet.As the B.A.R.
first reported in 2016, the San Francisco Planning Department used part of a $55,000 Underrepresented Communities Grant from the Department of the Interior to hire architectural historian Shayne Watson to write the nomination for Glide.
