Church of the Nativity (Menlo Park, California)

Church of the Nativity
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park, California
Coordinates	37°27′39″N 122°10′46″W / 37.46083°N 122.17944°W / 37.46083; -122.17944Coordinates: 37°27′39″N 122°10′46″W / 37.46083°N 122.17944°W / 37.46083; -122.17944
Area	1.7 acres (0.69 ha)
Built	1887 (1887)
Architect	Doyle,James
Architectural style	Gothic Revival
NRHP Reference #	80000855[1]
Added to NRHP	October 31, 1980

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.

Church interior

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.

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