Fun Friday: 2nd Street Cut
On the easternmost edge of the South of Market district is a remnant of a big 19th century San Francisco…
South of the Slot Before 1906
View of houses across the South of Market in the 1880s. The old Palace Hotel in the distance on the…
Welcome to South of Market Month
Over the whole month of October 2025, San Francisco Heritage’s Heritage in the Neighborhoods program will spotlight the South of…
Press Release: San Francisco Heritage Celebrates 150 Years of Landmark Lotta’s Fountain
Lotta’s Fountain, 1914. OpenSFHistory / wnp15.1086. Download release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 3, 2025 [SAN FRANCISCO]—San Francisco Heritage, the city’s…
Advocacy Update: Family Zoning Plan
On August 20, 2025, representatives from the San Francisco Planning Department presented to the Historic Preservation Commission the latest iteration…
What’s in a Name? The Doolan-Larson House and Storefronts
Doolan-Larson House and Storefronts. Photo courtesy of Alvis E. Hendley. Welcome to a new SF Heritage short series called “Past…
Out and About: Castro
The first half of 2025 hasn’t been kind to preservation in San Francisco: delayed hearings of the North Beach National…
Write to Your City Supervisor Protesting the Planned Demolition of a City Landmark
Postcard showing the Jones-Thierbach Coffee Company building, likely taken shortly after it was built in 1907. Thank you to Glenn…
Now Live: Request for Concept Proposals to Revitalize the Historic Doolan-Larson House and Storefronts
Doolan-Larson House and Storefronts. Photo courtesy of Alvis E. Hendley. Download the RFCP **Note the submission date has been extended…
Press Release: San Francisco Heritage Protests Planned Demolition of City Landmark
447 Battery Street. SF Heritage photo. Download release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 21, 2025 [SAN FRANCISCO]—San Francisco Heritage, the city’s…
Community Voices: A Half-Century of Preserving Chinese Musical Heritage
This piece was originally published in our July-September 2025 edition of SF Heritage News. To view the full issue, click here. BY…
Wrapping Up Jackson Square Month
This month, San Francisco Heritage’s Heritage in the Neighborhoods program returned to spotlight Jackson Square, a significant three-block area on the south…
Jackson Square: High-Tech Creatives and Waymos
This month at SF Heritage we have explored the many lives of Jackson Square, from its Gold Rush days to…
The First Historic District
By the late 1960s, San Francisco city government had begun to awaken to preservation as a cultural and economic tool…
Jackson Square Business Spotlights: William Stout Architectural Books and Tricolore Caffè & Pizzeria
We’ve written about a few of the businesses listed on the Legacy Business Registry in and around Jackson Square this…
A Queer Enclave: Jackson Square’s Early LGBTQ+ Clubs
“Bohemia has never been located geographically, but any clear day when the sun is going down, if you mount Telegraph…
Decorator Land
Since the 1880s, painters, photographers, poets, and writers had found studio and living space in the blocks between San Francisco’s…
Press Release: San Francisco Heritage Announces Request for Concept Proposals to Revitalize the Historic Doolan-Larson Residence and Storefronts—The “House at Haight-Ashbury”
Doolan-Larson Residence and Storefronts. Photo courtesy of Alvis E. Hendley. Download release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 18, 2025 [SAN FRANCISCO]—On…