Jump to navigation Jump to search “Alamo Square Park” redirects here. For for the park in Colorado, see Alamo Square Park, Colorado Springs. Alamo Square is a residential neighborhood and park in San Francisco, California, in the Western Addition. Alamo Square Park, the neighborhood’s focal point and namesake, consists of four city blocks at the top of a hill overlooking much of downtown San Russian ladies bay area, with a number of large and architecturally distinctive mansions along the perimeter, including the “Painted Ladies”, a well-known postcard motif.
Alamo Square Park includes a playground and a tennis court, and is frequented by neighbors, tourists, and dog owners. The Alamo Square neighborhood is characterized by Victorian architecture that was left largely untouched by the urban renewal projects in other parts of the Western Addition. A row of Victorian houses facing the park on Steiner Street, known as the “Painted Ladies”, are often shown in the foreground of panoramic pictures of the city’s downtown area. A number of movies, television shows and commercials have been filmed in or around Alamo Square. There are many architecturally significant mansions on the perimeter of the park, including the William Westerfeld House, the Archbishop’s Mansion, the residences of the Russian and German Imperial consuls in the early 1900s, and the mansions on the block diagonally across from the Painted Ladies. The Alamo Square Historic District is significant as a continuum of distinguished residential architecture by distinguished architects spanning the period from the 1870s to the 1920s. The towered Westerfield House, the renowned “Postcard Row” with its background of the downtown skyline, and the neighboring streetscapes are as identified worldwide with San Francisco as the cable cars and Coit Tower.
This section does not cite any sources. The demographics of the neighborhood are characteristic of other urban neighborhoods that have undergone gentrification: many young people and upper-middle-class homeowners, in addition to a diverse older population. Efforts on the part of Alamo Square and North Panhandle residents and merchants have led to restrictions on chain stores on the corridor. The Harding Theater on Divisadero, closed for many years, is a local symbol of the power of a number of non-profit groups to stymie development, in spite of efforts to put forward a variety of proposals to use this potentially valuable piece of property. Neighborhood groups include the Alamo Square Neighborhood Association and the Haight-Divisadero Neighborhood Merchants Association.
Author Alice Walker lived in one of the “Painted Lady” Victorians across from Alamo Square park up to the mid-1990s. Western Addition neighborhood in San Francisco, California, 94102, 94109, 94115, 94117 detailed profile”. Contentious affordable-housing measure passed by S. Article 10, San Francisco Planning Code, Appendix E”. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Museums in California. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Museums in Santa Clara County, California.
Fort Point under the Golden Gate Bridge. International Art Museum of America building. Historic ships of the San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2011. A colony of wild California sea lions now permanently established in this unusual urban location.
