Haight Legacy Business Candidate: Club Deluxe
Update 8/23/2022: Today Club Deluxe announced that they will remain open at 1509-1511 Haight Street after reaching “a fair and…
1506 Haight Street Window Artist Profile: Bee Betwee
To celebrate our Heritage in the Neighborhoods: Haight-Ashbury month in August 2022, SF Heritage invited two local artists to decorate…
Haight Legacy Business Spotlight: Piedmont Boutique
Piedmont Boutique was originally founded in 1972 at 4094-B Castro Street in the heart of the Castro District. Opened by…
Haight Legacy Business Candidates: Mendels and Murio’s Trophy Room
As part of our “Heritage in the Neighborhoods: Haight-Ashbury” program, SF Heritage is running a legacy business voting contest from…
Haight-Ashbury’s Retail Beginnings
by Woody LaBounty In the 1880s, what we now call the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood had more cows than human residents. Small…
Haight Neighborhood Walking Tour
World-famous as a center of the Counterculture of the 1960s, the Haight-Ashbury is architecturally significant as an almost entirely intact…
SF Heritage’s first ‘Academic in Residence’ researches the Sexual Freedom League in the Bay Area
From July 25 through August 14, 2022, San Francisco Heritage is hosting its first academic-in-residence, Heritage University professor Blake Slonecker…
SF Heritage Unveils Special Haight-Ashbury Piece by Stanley Mouse
We had a wonderful evening last week hosting a special reception for the unveiling of legendary poster artist Stanley Mouse’s…
Community Voices: Preserving Black Voices in the Haight
Kelly Ng and Lily Wong of legacy business Wah Mei School talk about the future of the Sunset Chinese Cultural…
SF Legacy Bars Spotlight: The Connecticut Yankee
100 Connecticut Street, home of The Connecticut Yankee, has been the site of various watering holes since 1907 when it…
Mapping Our Progress Towards Cultural Equity: July-September 2022
In 2021, San Francisco Heritage committed to boost cultural equity within our preservation work. We are revising our activities and…
Pride Month spotlight: Bay Area Indian Two-Spirits
Founded in 1998, Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits (BAAITS) exists to restore and recover the role of Two-Spirit people within…
#SFLegacyBiz Spotlight: Lyon-Martin Community Health Services
Lyon-Martin Community Health Services is a nonprofit clinic that serves low-income cis-gender women and transgender people with sensitivity to sexual…
Watch: Prioritizing Diverse Voices in Historic Preservation
If you missed it, catch the recording of our session at the California Preservation Foundation’s 2022 Education Conference, presented in…
San Francisco’s Black Entrepreneurs Across Time
Thanks to Renaissance Bayview for sharing a few of San Francisco’s Black entrepreneurs across time! It includes trailblazers such as…
Visitacion Valley landmarking moves forward
We are pleased to report that the winner of our Visitacion Valley landmark campaign, St. James Presbyterian Church, is moving through…
#SFLegacyBiz spotlight: Trattoria Contadina
Congratulations to Trattoria Contadina (1800 Mason Street), which joined the Legacy Business Registry on My 23, 2022. The restaurant, located…
“Mouse House” on View at 1506 Haight Street From June 11 -July 28, 2022
Stanley Mouse: Mouse House June 11 – July 28, 2022San Francisco Heritage’s Gallery 1506 Haight1506 Haight Street near Ashbury Street Exhibition…