Sacred Heart Parish of San Francisco was founded in 1885 to serve Catholics in the western precincts of San Francisco. It is a distinctive and well-executed example of a Romanesque Revival-style Catholic parish grouping.

The Sacred Heart Church is significant for its association with the growth and development of the Western Addition neighborhood from through the 1970s, association with Father Eugene Boyle, as a distinctive and well-executed example of Romanesque Revival-style Catholic parish grouping, and as the work of master architect Thomas J. Welsh.