Trinity + St. Peter's Episcopal Church

Trinity was founded in 1849, the oldest Episcopal congregation on the Pacific Coast, and has occupied its building at Bush and Gough Streets since 1893. A. Page Brown designed it in the Norman style, modelled on Durham Cathedral in north-east England and built of Colusa sandstone over brick, reinforced with structural steel — construction sound enough that it came through the 1906 earthquake and fire without damage, in a city where almost nothing did. The congregation merged with St. Peter's in 2012 and the parish is now Trinity + St. Peter's. Visitors and staff describe shadows crossing the interior walls, a grey figure that walks into solid stone and is gone, and an apparition in a white suit. The church remains active and open.