Old Saint Hilary's Church

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St. Hilary's Mission Church
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View from the Old St. Hilary Church overlooking the San Francisco Bay
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Location201 Esperanza St.
Tiburon, California
Coordinates 37°52′42″N122°27′22″W / 37.87833°N 122.45611°W / 37.87833; -122.45611 Coordinates: 37°52′42″N122°27′22″W / 37.87833°N 122.45611°W / 37.87833; -122.45611
Built1888
Architectural style Carpenter Gothic
NRHP reference No. 100004935 [1]
Added to NRHPFebruary 3, 2020

Old St. Hilary's Landmark is a former mission church place of worship and now a historic landmark owned and maintained by the Belvedere-Tiburon Landmarks Society, Tiburon Peninsula, Marin County, California, United States. [2] The landmark is situated on the flank of the Tiburon Hills, an area characterized by serpentine soils and hence has a distinct plant community. The area surrounding the church is a Marin County protected area, the Old Saint Hilary's Open Space Preserve. The church building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020. [1]

An endangered wildflower species, Streptanthus niger , commonly called the Tiburon jewelflower, grows near the church. [3]

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  1. 1 2 "National Register of Historic Places Program: Weekly List". National Park Service. February 14, 2020. Retrieved 2020-07-19.
  2. Belvedere-Tiburon Landmarks Society. 2012
  3. Rodriguez, Adrian (July 19, 2018). "Endangered Tiburon jewelflower finds home on Ring Mountain". Marin Independent Journal . Retrieved September 1, 2019.

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