Preservation and restoration of Saint Dominic Catholic Church Flying Buttresses Grace the Walls of St. Dominic's Preservation and Restoration With the seismic retrofit of St. Dominic's Church having been accomplished in 1992, the focus of the parish has shifted to restoration of its exterior and interior walls and roof, to preservation of its neo-Gothic interior graced by stained glass, wood carving, and marble statuary, and to restoration of its historic Woodberry organ. Here within the splendor, St. Dominic's cherished liturgies take place, and its soul is found. The conviction that this church is more than stone, wood, steel and concrete is what drives parishioners to preserve its treasures with the same zeal they brought to the retrofit program of the late eighties-early nineties. Lucia Dugliss Walls and Roof. Season upon season of increasingly inclement weather has subjected the church walls and roof to onslaughts that have badly worn down their defenses.
Water pours into the church during the rainy season, rendering areas of the nave off limits.
Stained glass windows. The stained glass windows of St. Dominic's were made by Charles J. Connick of Boston, Max Ingrand of Paris, and the Cummings Studios of San Francisco. They are precious, irreplaceable works of art. There are thirty-six in all. Some as tall as thirty feet.