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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 19/06/2026 22:34:00

A soaring 40-foot arched ceiling, original to the building's days as a funeral chapel, gives The Chapel its name and its drama. The venue occupies a 1914 structure on Valencia Street in San Francisco's Mission District that began life as the Gantner-Maison-Domergue Funeral Home; the high-ceilinged, open-beamed room where bands now perform was the mortuary's chapel, and the wider building later served for years as a campus of the New College of California. Restaurateur Jack Knowles bought the de...