Built 1887 (1887) Opened 1887 Phone +1 650-323-7914 Added to NRHP 31 October 1980 | NRHP Reference # 80000855 Area 6,900 m² Function Church | |
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Location 210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park, California Address 210 Oak Grove Ave, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA Architectural style Gothic Revival architecture Similar Our Lady of the Wayside, St Thomas Aquinas Church, Our Lady of Peace Shrine, Church of the Epiphany, Menlo Park Presbyterian Church | ||
Church of the Nativity is a historic Roman Catholic church at 210 Oak Grove Avenue in Menlo Park, California.
It was built in 1887 and added to the National Register in 1980.
The current pastor at the Church of the Nativity is the Rev. Msgr. Steven D. Otellini, brother to past Intel CEO Paul Otellini, and, because of the church's proximity to Saint Patrick's Seminary and University in Menlo Park, weekend assistants often include young or international priests. Nearby are the Vallombrosa Center retreat house and the Corpus Christi Monastery of Dominican sisters. The parish serves a predominately Anglo Catholic community and has an associated parochial school, Nativity School. With a relatively strong academic reputation locally, students from Nativity School have gone on to such local high schools as Sacred Heart Preparatory (Atherton, California), Saint Francis High School (Mountain View), Mercy High School (Burlingame, California), Bellarmine College Preparatory, and Notre Dame High School (Belmont, California) as well as colleges including Stanford University, Loyola Marymount University, California Polytechnic State University, New York University, University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Davis, and Saint Mary's College of California among others.