Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Years/158

1857
 * The Sisters of Mercy open St. Mary's Hospital on Stockton Street in San Francisco, the first Catholic hospital west of the Rocky Mountains (hospital ruins in 1906 pictured)
 * Minns Evening Normal School is founded in San Francisco by George W. Minns
 * George Kenny starts construction of an octagonal house at Russian Hill in San Francisco
 * Landscape painter Fortunato Arriola moves to San Francisco from Cosala, Sinaloa, Mexico
 * Lafayette is incorporated in Contra Costa County
 * Buena Vista Winery is founded by Agoston Haraszthy in the Sonoma Valley (early champagne production pictured)