architecture

A collection of 25 posts

Union Square

The White House

Remembering a store and a man that every San Franciscan once knew.

Telegraph Hill

Telegraph Place

Having a crush on some long-gone San Francisco houses and wondering what happened to Good Children.

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Grab Bag

Grab Bag #52

Signs of the times and San Francisco views here and gone.

Westwood Park

Selling Westwood Park

Marketing bungalow life in 1910s San Francisco.

Dogpatch

Old School Dogpatch

San Francisco's oldest public-school building is still doing its job.

Ocean Beach

Going Out

Life Saving at San Francisco's Ocean Beach

Stern Grove

Trocadero Rebirth

San Francisco's last roadhouse is resurrected in Stern Grove.

Western Addition

Moved by Faith

The 1850s San Francisco church that kept moving west.

Yerba Buena Island

Torpedo Point

An explosive point of interest tucked under the eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.

Grab Bag

Grab Bag #45

Super-sized San Francisco history hash of huckster cowboys, old cars, old bars, ruined mansions, hitching posts, and Lotta's fountain.

Outer Mission

Where is Geneva Terraces?

Sherbet-colored cottages in a mostly secret San Francisco neighborhood.

Rincon Hill

The Unkindest Cut

The 1860s Rincon Hill project that put the cut in San Francisco's East Cut neighborhood.

Richmond District

Carzonia Apartments

Cable-car-house living in the Richmond District after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire.

Downtown

The Monkey Block

How San Francisco's Montgomery Block, built in 1853, survived every disaster, but lost to one man.

Mission District

Sunshine School

How the Rotary Club introduced special education into the San Francisco school district 100 years ago.

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Grab Bag

Grab Bag #39

Some odds and ends spotted on recent walks around the Western Addition, Woody on jury duty, and the story of the wheelbarrow man. All in all, kinda strange, but, hey, you knew what you were signing up for.

Gold Rush

Gold Rush Prefab

"Portable houses" were one solution to San Francisco's 1849 housing crisis.

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Grab Bag #36

Animalia of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, a Richmond District dairy, Willie Mays, and more of my favorite things.

Pacific Heights

Victorian Comeback II

An invitation for this Saturday and the comeback of an architectural style synonymous with San Francisco.

St. Mary's Park

The Bell of St. Mary's (Park)

One San Francisco neighborhood has a design best appreciated from above.

Mission District

Mixed-Use Mission Street

What changed and what didn't on one San Francisco block after the 1906 earthquake and fire.

Richmond District

Bank/Bar

Why Apollo, not Dionysus, adorns the front of a Richmond District bar in San Francisco.

Mission District

Maguire's Houses

Life on one Mission District block on February 22, 1887 at 11:35 a.m.

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Grab Bag

Woody Grab Bag #007

A history of where you can put your car...and more.

Union Square

Hallowed Ground on Sutter Street

From the time of its dedication on March 23, 1866, the old Temple Emanu-El was a landmark of 19th-century San Francisco.