Events

• Soirée 2008 at The Old Mint

Tours

• Haas-Lilienthal House
• San Francisco Walking Tours
• Pacific Heights Walking Tours
• Heritage Hikes
• Group Tour

EVENTS

Soirée 2008 at The Old Mint

took place on:
Saturday, April 12, 2008
An evening of dining, dancing, casino gaming and bidding on
wonderful silent auction prizes.

We hope you will join us next year!

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TOURS

Haas-Lilienthal House Tour
As featured on A&E's America's Castles' series Castles by the Bay copyright 1991, Richard Sexton. The Haas-Lilienthal House, (Peter Schmidt, Architect) is at 2007 Franklin Street, (between Washington & Jackson) in San Francisco. This exuberant Queen Anne-style Victorian was built in 1886. It is the only intact private home of the period that is open regularly as a museum, complete with authentic furniture and artifacts. The House has elaborate wooden gables, a circular corner tower and luxurant ornamentation. Volunteer docents lead tours through the House and explain the Victorian architecture of the exterior. A display of photographs in the downstairs supper-room describes the history of the home and the family that lived here until 1972. To learn more about the house, click here. Tours of this house museum are offered regularly on Sundays from 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. and on Wednesdays and Saturdays* from 12:00 Noon - 3:00 p.m. General Admission: $8; Seniors & Children 12 & under: $5. Special group tours are also available. For more information contact Shelley Adams.
*The house is occasionally closed Saturdays for private parties. Please call our info line at 415.441.3004 to confirm we are open on the Saturday you wish to visit.

Closed for Public Tours on May 11th

see photo credits.

Saturday Walking Tours
SF Heritage is delighted to offer 4 public walking tours, given on Saturdays at 1:30. Each tour covers ~15-20 blocks and takes about 2 hours. These 4 tours will be given on a rotating basis, on Saturdays at 1:30, as follows:

• FIRST SATURDAY OF EACH MONTH: 
  “City Beautiful to Civic Center” Tour
  This walk is the flattest of the 4 new walks, and is a comprehensive exploration of the Civic Center Historic District - one of the finest ensembles of Beaux Arts architecture in America - and why that style prevails there.  In addition to the many beautiful buildings, this tour also covers quite a bit of public artwork. This tour (only) does NOT start at the Haas-Lilienthal House, and so requires reservations. THIS TOUR HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.
• SECOND SATURDAY OF EACH MONTH:
  “A Walk Along Broadway” visits the area north and west of the Haas-Lilienthal House, covering a number of Victorian styles of houses along Broadway (including the “Mrs. Doubtfire” house) and numerous stunning Classical Revival buildings, including 2 of Silver King James Flood’s former mansions. This tour starts at the Haas-Lilienthal House, and ends elsewhere.THIRD SATURDAY OF EACH MONTH:
  “Beyond Union Street: A Walk Through Cow Hollow”
  This walking tour explores the early years of Cow Hollow through the distinctive architecture of the neighborhood, including early dairy farms, roadway inns, converted stables and barns, the exteriors of Victorian houses and mansions, and the grand art deco apartment buildings that replaced them. The walk showcases residential and commercial architectural styles from the 1850s to the 1920s. This tour starts at the Haas-Lilienthal House, and ends elsewhere.
• FOURTH SATURDAY OF EACH MONTH:
  “Walk the Fire Line: Van Ness Avenue”
  This stroll down to and along Van Ness Avenue, skirts the 1906 fire line, and offers marvelous post-1906 architecture along and east of Van Ness Avenue, as well as a few outstanding pre-quake survivors on the western side. We address the earthquake and fire, and the subsequent effects on the area, which evolved from being a grand residential boulevard to a high-style commercial row created to showcase that latest of modern conveniences, the automobile. This tour starts at the Haas-Lilienthal House, and ends elsewhere.

Tour prices is the same as for all our other tours: 

• Free for members $8 general admission
• $5 for seniors & children aged 12 & under.

Layered clothing and comfortable walking shoes are recommended, but these tours have been designed with limited uphill portions, and the pace is comfortable for most people. Water will be available. Reservations required for the Saturday Civic Center walking tour only – please contact Shelley at 415/ 441.3000 x24 or email Shelley Adams.

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Pacific Heights Walking Tour
This is an illuminating 2-hour tour of eastern Pacific Heights which includes examples and insights into San Francisco's diverse architecture as well as stories of earthquakes, fortunes and fame. Tour leaves from the Haas-Lilienthal House every Sunday at 12:30 p.m. Reservations are not required for this walk. General Admission: $8; Seniors & Children 12 & under: $5. Duration is approximately 2 hours. For more information contact Shelley Adams.

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Heritage Hikes
A special program by which San Francisco school children are taught to be acute observers of the built environment and to value their heritage. The program offers a teacher's workshop, an "Architrunk" which goes out to the classroom, a Treasure Hunt tour of a Victorian neighborhood and a tour of the Haas-Lilienthal House. Only Heritage-trained teachers may bring their classes in for this program. For more information contact Shelley Adams.

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Group Tours
Special private tours of the Haas-Lilienthal House are available for any size group up to 44 people and for groups up to 25 for our walking tours. We charge a minimum of $100/group or $10/person. These tours can be scheduled for any time the House isn't open to the public or already booked, so the earlier you call to arrange, the better! These tours can be made longer or shorter than the public tours, and we make every effort to tailor them to your group whenever possible, so please let us know if you have any particular areas of interest!  Also, private tours get to go into several rooms that are roped off on the public tours.  Senior/student price break available - please contact Shelley Adams for more information or to book a special private tour.

Heritage tours are made possible in part through a grant from
the San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund.