Saint Dominic's was the second Dominican church and school in California. The first is in Benicia. To me, this is synchronicity. Every nun who was my teacher is buried a few blocks away from my present home where there is a cemetary for all Californian Dominican nuns. Our church in San Francisco is the only Roman Gothic architecture in North America but the original one was identical to the one here in Benicia. When the new one was built, the old one became the auditorium and basketball court for our school.