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More Than One Battle After Another: Building a Movement for Preservation
By Woody LaBounty In 1980, writer and philosopher Michel de Certeau compared…
The Rise of Modern SOMA
Design by Ally Hernandez. In 2025, the City of San Francisco is…
The Making of Yerba Buena Center
On February 17, 1953, the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency submitted a report…
Old Mint Odyssey
“8:45 PM” by Shawn Clover, CC BY-NC 2.0. As a boy in the 1910s,…
Greek Town
If you want to find the social center of San Francisco’s Greek…
Industrial Grace in 1920s South of Market
In the decades after the 1906 earthquake and fire the South of…
St. Patrick’s Church
Saint Patrick’s church is a Landmark of an area now entirely changed…
Irish Legacies South of Market
In the years after the 1906 earthquake and fire a narrative took…
Rebuilding South of Market
View southeast across Howard Street from 3rd Street after the 1906 earthquake…
South of the Slot Before 1906
View of houses across the South of Market in the 1880s. The…