1922 cost estimates rose from $125,000 to $150,000. A
San Francisco Chronicle estimate in November 1923 projected $175,000 for the project. with a note showing the upcoming church|left Due to the dwindling size of its congregation and the increased cost of maintaining such a large building, the building was sold in September 2009 to the
Internet Archive for $4.5 million. The Archive chose the church based on its
Greek Revival design, which resembles the logo of the Internet Archive, which features the
Library of Alexandria. The auditorium has hymn numbers on either side of the stage, including 200, 404 and 451, representing the
http status codes for successfully loaded page, unsuccessful, and blocked for legal reasons respectively. On November 6, 2013, a side building built in the 1940’s as a Christian Science reading room at Internet Archive's headquarters in
San Francisco's Richmond District caught fire, destroying equipment and damaging some nearby apartments. According to The Archive, it lost the side-building that housed one of 30 of its scanning centers; cameras, lights, and scanning equipment worth hundreds of thousands of dollars; and "maybe 20 boxes of books and film, some irreplaceable, most already digitized, and some replaceable". The nonprofit Archive sought donations to cover the estimated $600,000 in damage. Founder and Digital Librarian
Brewster Kahle often leads the free public tour of the archive that is given every Friday after lunch. ==See also==