The truth about landmarks
In 2025, Rafael Mandelman, president of the board of supervisors, worked closely with the Planning Department and San Francisco Heritage to find ways to…
The Mothers Building at 100 and the Race to Rescue a Historic Landmark at the SF Zoo
For many years, SF Heritage has, in partnership with community members like advocate Richard Rothman and District 7 Supervisor Myrna…
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“Special City” is SF Heritage’s community membership and communications program. It combines our nonprofit advocacy and educational missions and is…
Press Release: San Francisco to Mark the 140th Anniversary of Yick Wo vs. Hopkins
The Landmark Civil Rights Case Ruling Born in the South of Market Download release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SF Heritage Media…
Press Release: Lecture and Book Release Party for Geneva “Car Barn” on April 22
San Francisco Celebrates 125 Years of Landmark Transit Building Download release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SF Heritage Media Contact:Kerri YoungPrograms and…
Help support our first Archives Project campaign in April 2026!
Design by Tara Newland. Over the past 55 years San Francisco Heritage has collected and created a significant library of…
Press Release: Five Teams Invited to Reimagine the “House at Haight-Ashbury”
Doolan-Larson Residence and Storefronts. Photo courtesy of Alvis E. Hendley. Download RElease View the One-Page Summaries of finalists FOR IMMEDIATE…
More Than One Battle After Another: Building a Movement for Preservation
By Woody LaBounty In 1980, writer and philosopher Michel de Certeau compared two cities: Unlike Rome, New York has never…
Announcing Special City (+ get our emails!)
Graphic by Ally Hernandez. **Update February 17, 2026: View our very first Special City email/post here. We are excited to…
50 Years of Voices of the Native Nations with Mary Jean Robertson
This is part of a series of posts in partnership with the American Indian Cultural District to promote and document intangible and tangible…
The Hair Place & More Barbershop becomes first Native-American-owned legacy business
Debbie Santiago (holding certificate) celebrates The Hair Place & More Barbershop’s inclusion on the Legacy Business Registry, December 2025. Photo…
Celebrate the birthday of an iconic San Francisco landmark and support SF Heritage
Photo credit: Lotta’s Fountain, c. 1909, OpenSFHistory / wnp25.4252. Edit: 1/5/26: You have helped us meet our goal! Read this…
Adaptive Reuse at the Doolan-Larson House
Welcome back to the final “Past Meets Possibility” newsletter from SF Heritage. On August 1, SF Heritage published a Request…
Artists-in-Residence at the Doolan-Larson House
Welcome to a new SF Heritage short series called “Past Meets Possibility” On August 1, SF Heritage published a Request…
Wrapping Up SOMA Month
This month, San Francisco Heritage’s Heritage in the Neighborhoods program spotlighted the area south of Market Street, which throughout its history has…
The Stud
By Drew Bourn PhD MLIS for San Francisco Heritage Design by Ally Hernandez. In 1976, Armistead Maupin’s “Tales of the…
The San Francisco Eagle
By Drew Bourn PhD MLIS for San Francisco Heritage Design by Ally Hernandez. After WWII a new kind of gay…
The Folsom Street Fair
By Drew Bourn PhD MLIS for San Francisco Heritage Design by Ally Hernandez. U.S. Army Captain Joseph Folsom, after whom…