Designated Landmarks and Landmark Districts

Rainbow Flag at Harvey Milk Plaza, San Francisco's 319th Landmark

Gilbert Baker’s Rainbow Flag installation at Harvey Milk Plaza is a site-specific artwork. It consists of a 20 by 30 foot nylon banner with six horizontal stripes of equal width with the colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet, hoisted on an aluminum flagpole mounted on a concrete plinth with a metal plaque aligned on an axis between the plaza and the ferry building. Rainbow Flag is a landmark as a traditional cultural property with global recognition (National Register of Historic Places Criterion A) and as a significant artwork by the political artist Gilbert Baker under (Criterion C). The artist Gilbert Baker (1951-2017) is widely known for creating a six-striped Rainbow Flag artwork based on an eight-striped version made in San Francisco in 1978. Baker’s six-color Rainbow Flag rapidly became associated with the greater Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer+ (LGBTQ+) community, not only in terms of the diversity of whom it represented but also in its global recognition. For nearly two decades, Baker produced variations on the theme of the six-stripe Rainbow Flag for different anniversaries and events. The Rainbow Flag installation at Harvey Milk Plaza in 1997 is a site-specific permanent artwork and is the only such made by Baker. It honors the political achievements of Harvey Milk and the next generation of LGBTQ+ politicians; it serves as a beacon of hope, visibility and power; and, it is the singular physical manifestation of LGBTQ+ pride for everyone.

UPDATE: The Board of Supervisors voted to initiate landmark designation on April 12, 2024. The Historic Preservation Commission recommended approval of landmark designation at their hearing on May 15, 2024. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the landmark designation on September 13, 2024. More information is available in the Landmark Designation Report.

The Gregangelo Museum, 225 San Leandro Way – San Francisco's 318th Landmark

The Gregangelo Museum, the home and studio of Gregangelo Herrera, an acclaimed queer artist of half Lebanese and Mexican descent, and an artist collective welcoming creators from around the globe, is a cultural hub and an evolving San Francisco-inspired art piece evocative of 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s LGBTQ+ and Counterculture communities. The Gregangelo Museum is an immersive visual, performance, and circus arts environment located in a restored Mediterranean Revival style house that has been transformed through art installations into a living masterpiece, intertwining art, history, and hope, contributing to the unique arts and culture of San Francisco. The period of significance is 1920s to 2024.

UPDATE: The Board of Supervisors voted to initiate landmark designation on December 5, 2023. The Historic Preservation Commission recommended approval of landmark designation at their hearing on March 20, 2024. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the landmark designation on June 11, 2024. More information is available in the Landmark Designation Report.

San Francisco Fire Station No. 44, 1298 Girard Street – San Francisco's 317th Landmark

San Francisco Fire Station No. 44, at 1298 Girard Street, constructed in 1913 and one of the oldest active fire stations in the city, is significant for association with a period of expansion in San Francisco's Fire Department in the early twentieth century. It is also an excellent example of an early twentieth century, Classical Revival style, brick fire station, representative of the work of architect of merit, John Reid, Jr. The period of significance is 1913.

UPDATE: The Board of Supervisors voted to initiate landmark designation on September 26, 2023. The Historic Preservation Commission recommended approval of landmark designation at their hearing on December 20, 2023. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the landmark designation on May 7, 2024. More information is available in the Landmark Designation Report.

Sacred Heart Parish Complex, 660 Oak Street, 546-548 Fillmore Street, 554 Fillmore Street, and 735 Fell Street – San Francisco's 316th Landmark

The Sacred Heart Parish Complex is significant as a distinctive and well-executed example of a Romanesque Revival-style Catholic parish grouping consisting of church, rectory, school and convent. The complex is additionally significant for its association with master architect Thomas J. Welsh. The Sacred Heart Parish Complex is additionally significant for its association with Father Eugene Boyle (1921-2016), pastor of the church from 1968 to 1972 and a prominent and influential civil rights activist in northern California. The Sacred Heart Parish Complex is also significant for its association with the growth and development of the Western Addition and Catholic religious institutions in San Francisco in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

UPDATE: At the October 5, 2016 hearing the Historic Preservation Commission initiated designation. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the landmark designation on March 28, 2024. More information is available in the Landmark Designation Report.

Grand Theater, 2665 Mission Street – San Francisco's 315th Landmark

Grand Theater, constructed in 1940, isthe last single-screen neighborhood movie theater constructed in San Francisco prior to World War 11, is significant for its association with the city's network of twentieth-century neighborhood theaters, an important element of our heritage. Further, Grand Theater, as a rare example of a large-scale Streamline Moderne style building, is also architecturally signficant as it embodies distinctive characteristics of the style, including notable neon sign marquee, and is representative of the work of two architects of merit, G. Albert Lansburgh and S. Charles Lee, renowned theater designers. The period of significance is 1940.

UPDATE: The Board of Supervisors voted to initiate landmark designation on July 25, 2023. The Historic Preservation Commission recommended approval of landmark designation at their hearing on November 15, 2023. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the landmark designation on March 5, 2024. More information is available in the Landmark Designation Report.

Westwood Park Entrance Gateway and Pillars, at intersections of Miramar Avenue and Monterey Boulevard, Miramar Avenue and Ocean Avenue, and Judson Avenue and Frida Kahlo Wa – San Francisco's 314th Landmark

Westwood Park Entrance Gateway and Pillars, designed by renowned architect Louis Christian Mullgardt, were constructed in 1916 for Westwood Park developers Baldwin & Howell. These landscape features, located at prominent street corners of the neighborhood, are architecturally significant as excellent examples of such features in early twentieth-century residence parks and as instances of work of an architect of merit. Westwood Park Entrance Gateway and Pillars are further significant as visual landmarks of the Westwood Park neighborhood. The period of significance is 1916.

UPDATE: The Board of Supervisors voted to initiate landmark designation on May 16, 2023. The Historic Preservation Commission recommended approval of landmark designation at their hearing on November 15, 2023. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the landmark designation on January 30, 2024. More information is available in the Landmark Designation Report.

Carnaval Mural, north exterior wall of 1311-1315 South Van Ness Avenu – San Francisco's 313th Landmark

Carnaval Mural, painted in 1983 (restored in 2014) by muralist Daniel Galvez and several other artists, depicts the Mission's iconic Pan-Latino businesses and cultural institutions along with people dancing and celebrating Carnaval on 24th Street. A cultural asset with significant and longstanding association with the Mission District's Pan-Latino community, the Carnaval Mural celebrates Latin music and culture in the Mission District, a significant and vibrant part of San Francisco's cultural heritage. In addition, Carnaval Mural has high artistic value and is representative of the Community Art Movement, or Mission Muralismo, a distinctive mode of expression within the Mission District, which is internationally known for its rich collection of murals. The period of significance is 1983.

UPDATE: The Board of Supervisors voted to initiate landmark designation on March 21, 2023. The Historic Preservation Commission recommended landmark designation on September 20, 2023. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the landmark designation on January 9, 2024 More information is available in the Landmark Designation Report.

Chata Gutierrez Mural (aka La Rumba No Para: The Chata Gutierrez Mural, west exterior wall of 3175 24th Street – San Francisco's 312th Landmark

The Chata Gutierrez Mural, painted in 2015 by Carlos "Kookie" Gonzalez and other artists, depicts the late Chata Gutierrez, radio station KPOO's first Latina DJ and host of the Bay Area's longest-running Latin music program, surrounded by dancers and conga players. The Chata Gutierrez Mural, a tribute to a cultural icon of the Latinx community, is a cultural asset that has a significant association with the Mission District's Pan-Latino community, and celebrates the Latin Music Movement, a significant and vibrant part of San Francisco's cultural heritage. In addition, the Chata Gutierrez Mural is representative of the Community Art Movement, or Mission Muralismo, a distinctive mode of expression within the Mission District, which is internationally known for its rich collection of murals. The period of significance is 2015

UPDATE: The Board of Supervisors voted to initiate landmark designation on March 21, 2023. The Historic Preservation Commission recommended landmark designation on September 20, 2023. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the landmark designation on January 9, 2024 More information is available in the Landmark Designation Report.

Colombo Market Arch, 600 Front Street (within Sydney Walton Square) – San Francisco's 311th Landmark

Colombo Market Arch is the sole surviving remnant of the Colombo Market building, which was designed by architect Clinton Day, and constructed in 1894 (reconstructed 1906) as the city’s first enclosed wholesale market for fruit, vegetables, and related agricultural products. Colombo Market was a catalyst for development of the city’s produce district and an incubator for Italian-American agricultural businesses. The building, with the exception of the Arch, was demolished in the early 1960s. Colombo Market Arch is significant for its association with the Colombo Market building and the Italian-American community that founded the produce market. The period of significance is 1909-1960.

UPDATE: The Board of Supervisors voted to initiate landmark designation on March 7, 2023. The Historic Preservation Commission recommended approval of landmark designation at their hearing on June 21, 2023. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the landmark designation on October 3, 2023. More information is available in the Landmark Designation Report.

Parkside Branch Library, 1200 Taraval Street – San Francisco's 310th Landmark

Parkside Branch Library, built in 1951, was designed by the architectural firm of Appleton & Wolfard in collaboration with City Librarian, Laurence Clarke. The building broke the mold of previous branch library design and functionality and was the first of eight Mid-Century Modern-style branches constructed between 1951 and 1966. At the time of its construction, Parkside Branch Library was a nationally recognized prototype for branch libraries, adapted to local ideals while successfully incorporating modern library trends that were being developed and distributed by the American Library Association after World War II. Parkside Branch Library is also architecturally significant, embodying many of the principles of Mid-Century American public library design with a signature and innovative style for branch libraries. Parkside Branch Library is representative of the work of Appleton & Wolfard, an architectural firm of merit, and the firm’s collaboration with renowned landscape architect Lawrence Halprin on the original landscape design. The period of significance is 1951.

UPDATE: The Board of Supervisors voted to initiate landmark designation on December 13, 2022. The Historic Preservation Commission recommended approval of landmark designation at their hearing on May 17, 2023. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the landmark designation on July 25, 2023. More information is available in the Landmark Designation Report.

The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples 2041 Larkin Street – San Francisco's 309th Landmark

The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples, established in 1943, is one of the first inter-racial, inter-cultural, inter-denominational churches in the United States. It is a culturally and historically significant building that is representative of African American social, cultural, and intellectual life and is associated with the struggle for integration and civil rights. The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples is also important for its association with Dr. Howard Thurman and with Sue Bailey Thurman. Dr. Howard Thurman, co-founder and pastor of The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples from 1944 to 1953, was a nationally prominent theologian, religious scholar and educator, renowned author, prolific lecturer, spiritual advisor to many African American religious and political leaders, and one of the principle intellectual influences shaping the modern, nonviolent civil rights movement. Sue Bailey Thurman was an author, editor, lecturer, historian, and community organizer, renowned for her efforts to integrate and progress the lives of Black women, for dissemination of African American history, and for advocacy of interracial, intercultural, and international understanding in support of universal emancipation. The period of significance is 1944-1953

UPDATE: The Historic Preservation Commission voted to initiate landmark designation on March 1, 2023. At a subsequent hearing on April 19, 2023, the Historic Preservation Commission recommended landmark designation. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the landmark designation on June 27, 2023. More information is available in the Landmark Designation Report.

The Castro Theatre, 429-431 Castro Street – San Francisco's 100th Landmark (Amendment)

Built in 1922, the Castro Theatre is the oldest and longest continually operating single-screen movie house in San Francisco and the most ornate of San Francisco’s extant movie palaces. The theater is considered the flagship theater of the Nasser Family, San Francisco’s oldest movie business family. An early work of renowned Bay Area architect Timothy Pflueger, the Castro Theatre was the first theater he designed and is considered one of his most iconic pieces of work. The Theater anchored early commercial development in the Eureka Valley neighborhood, now known as the Castro. Since the mid-1970s, the Castro Theatre has maintained a deep tradition of LGBTQ programming, including the world’s largest and longest-running LGBTQ film festival. Countless independent movies have premiered at the Theater, drawing global attention to diverse topics surrounding LGBTQ identity, culture, history, politics, and more.

The Castro Theatre was designated as Landmark No. 100 in 1977. The that time, only the building’s exterior was designated. The 2023 amendment expanded the designation to include interior features as well, and capture the property’s full cultural significance.

UPDATE: On May 24, 2022, the Board of Supervisors voted to initiate the landmark designation amendment. At the February 1, 2023 hearing the Historic Preservation Commission recommended the landmark designation amendment. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the landmark designation amendment on June 13, 2023. More information is available in the Landmark Designation Report.

St. James Presbyterian Church, 240 Leland Avenue – San Francisco's 308th Landmark

St. James Presbyterian Church, organized by the Presbytery of San Francisco as its first Filipino ministry in late 1980s, was originally established in 1908 and is one of the oldest religious congregations in Visitacion Valley. The current building was constructed in 1922 based on design by renowned architect Julia Morgan, the first woman licensed to practice architecture in California. Morgan opened her own practice in 1904 and ran one of the most successful architecture firms in California during the first half of the twentieth century, receiving over 800 commissions. St. James is representative of broad patterns of San Francisco history and is historically significant for its association with early development of the Visitacion Valley neighborhood. St. James Presbyterian Church is also architecturally significant as an example of the work of architect of merit, Julia Morgan. The period of significance is 1922-1923.

UPDATE: The Board of Supervisors voted to initiate landmark designation on July 19, 2022. At their hearing on November 2, 2022, the Historic Preservation Commission recommended designation. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the landmark designation on December 13, 2022. More information is available in the Landmark Designation Report.

Turk and Taylor Streets Intersection, known as the “Site of the Compton’s Cafeteria Riot”, Turk and Taylor Streets intersection, together with portions of 101 Taylor Street – San Francisco's 307th Landmark

The Site of the Compton’s Cafeteria riot is significant for its association with the first large-scale collective direct action on the part of people marginalized by sexuality/gender that resulted in lasting institutional change, surpassing Cooper Donut in impact, Dewey's in militancy, and preceding the more important/larger Stonewall in time. By acting collectively, instead of as individuals, members of the community were able to further the cause to enable a greater freedom of gender expression without oppression. Moreover, after the Riot, the City’s Health and Police Departments began to develop supportive programs for the transgender people in San Francisco, some of which would also enable people to gain access to State and Federal anti-poverty programs. The Riot to demand dignity succeeded in starting the long process to change society.

UPDATE: At their June 7, 2022 hearing the Board of Supervisors initiated designation. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the landmark designation on November 29, 2022. More information is available in the Landmark Designation Report.

City Cemetery, within Lincoln Park – San Francisco's 306th Landmark

City Cemetery, which formerly occupied part of what is now Lincoln Park, represents an early incarnation of social safety nets related to burial of the dead for socially, ethnically, and culturally diverse populations of San Franciscans in the late nineteenth century. Its establishment on the margins of the city in 1868, and its closure in 1909, are associated with shifting attitudes regarding cemeteries in urban spaces during the late nineteenth and early twentieth cemeteries. City Cemetery contains the extant Kong Chow funerary structure and Ladies' Seamen's Friends Society obelisk, both of which embody distinctive characteristics of late nineteenth century funerary design and practice. City Cemetery is also significant because it contains the buried remnants of the cemetery, including human remains, which could yield important information about the history of San Francisco. The period of significance is 1868 to 1909.

UPDATE: The Board of Supervisors voted to initiate landmark designation on July 27, 2021. The Historic Preservation Commission recommended approval of landmark designation at their hearing on May 4, 2022. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the landmark designation on September 27, 2022. More information is available in the Landmark Designation Report.

Takahashi Trading Company, 200 Rhode Island Street – San Francisco's 305th Landmark

The Takahashi Trading Company is significant for its association with San Francisco’s Japanese-American community. Prominent entrepreneurs and philanthropists Henri and Tomoye Takahashi owned the subject property from 1965 to 2019. Upon returning to San Francisco from internment at the Topaz War Relocation Center during World War II, the couple established the original Takahashi Trading Company in Japantown. However, the building was demolished in 1961 as part of the City’s redevelopment efforts, leading them to purchase 200 Rhode Island Street. The subject property served as headquarters for the Takahashi Trading Company which imported high-quality products from Japan for sale at Bay Area and New York City retailers. The Henri and Tomoye Takahashi Charitable Foundation was also headquartered at the subject property. Since its 1986 inception, the Foundation has supported a myriad of Japanese and Japanese-American educational and cultural organizations.

The subject property is also significant for its architecture as an intact early example of G. Albert Lansburgh’s work. Specifically, the original 1912 heavy timber-frame and brick warehouse constitutes an early and distinctive project in the career of this architect, who was highly regarded an early twentieth-century theater designer. This building is one of his few known warehouses.

UPDATE: At the November 17, 2021 hearing the Historic Preservation Commission initiated designation. At the February 16, 2022 hearing the Historic Preservation Commission recommended designation. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the landmark designation on September 13, 2022. More information is available in the Landmark Designation Report.

Mother’s Building, within San Francisco Zoological Gardens, southeast of Great Highway and Sloat Boulevard – San Francisco's 304th Landmark

The Mother's Building, constructed in 1925 for Herbert and Mortimer Fleishhacker to honor their late mother, was donated to the City and dedicated to serve as a place of rest for mothers and young children. The building is decorated with tile mosaics completed in 1934, titled St. Francis and Children and Their Animal Friends, by Helen Bruton (assisted by her sisters, Margaret and Esther Bruton), and an egg tempera on plaster mural cycle painted between 1933 and 1938, titled Building the Ark, Loading of the Animals, Landing of the Ark, and The Ark's Passengers Disembark, by Helen K. Forbes and Dorothy Puccinelli, through the federal Public Works of Art Project and the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Specifically, designation of the Mother's Building is significant for its association with women's history, as one of the only recreation sites of the period focused on the comfort of mothers and their young children, and as the only large-scale WPA-era art project solely featuring female artists; with the WPA's art programs and with the outstanding murals and tile mosaics created by these female artists; with early recreational facilities in San Francisco; and as an excellent example of Italian Renaissance Revival architecture and work of architect of merit George W. Kelham. The period of significance is 1925 to 1938.

UPDATE: The Board of Supervisors voted to initiate landmark designation on April 12, 2021. At their hearing on June 15, 2022, the Historic Preservation Commission recommended designation. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the landmark designation on September 6, 2022. More information is available in the Landmark Designation Report.

Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, 2868 Mission Street – San Francisco's 303rd Landmark

The Mission Cultural Center (later Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts) is located in the Mission District, a large and diverse neighborhood in the east-central portion of San Francisco. The building was constructed in1947 as a furniture store and converted into the Mission Cultural Center (MCC) in 1977.The building is a predominately two-and three-story, reinforced concrete building with a partial fourth floor. It is L-shaped in plan and has a flat roof with skylights. The primary façade faces Mission Street while the larger rear (west)façade faces Osage Alley. The Mission Street façade features three structural bays. The building’s fenestration is concentrated at the center of the ground floor, crowned with a neon marquee reading “Mission Cultural Center.” This is flanked on either side by the primary entrances. The building is predominately clad with concrete and stucco. The upper portion of the primary and east façades features a large and significant mural depicting Latino cultural themes. Significant interior and exterior alterations were made during a major renovation from1984 to 1987, during which the MCC operated from temporary quarters several blocks away on Harrison Street. More modest modifications were made to the building in 1992 and 2015.The building is in good condition and retains all aspects of integrity.

UPDATE: At their January 10, 2021 hearing the Historic Preservation Commission initiated designation. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the landmark designation on May 24, 2022. More information is available in the Landmark Designation Report.

Clay Theater, 2261 Fillmore Street – San Francisco's 302nd Landmark

Clay Theatre, constructed in 1913 by the Mutual Amusement & Investment Company as a Nickelodeon movie theater, strictly for showing of moving pictures with no backstage for other types of performances, has been operated as a single-screen neighborhood theater from 1913 to 2020 by many well-known theater operators, including Herbert Rosener, Nasser Brothers, Mel Novikoff (Surf Theaters Group), and Landmark Theatres. The theater, which ceased operation in January 2020, has also been known as the Regent, The Clay-International, and The New Clay. One of the oldest single screen nickelodeon movie houses in San Francisco, Clay Theatre is historically significant for its association with the initial development of neighborhood theaters during the pioneering period of moving picture theaters and the development of the film industry in San Francisco in the early 20th century. Further, Clay Theatre, which began specializing in foreign films in 1935, is significant as the first dedicated foreign film theater in San Francisco and as an important exhibitor of foreign and independent art house films through the late 1980s. The Clay Theatre, one of only four extant former Nickelodeons remaining in the City, and one of two that remains as a single screen theater, is architecturally significant as a building that embodies the distinctive characteristics of both an early 20th century Nickelodeon and a single-screen neighborhood movie theater, increasingly rare building types that are vibrant features of the built environment and important and unique cultural institutions in San Francisco. The period of significance is 1913 to circa 1985.

UPDATE: The Board of Supervisors voted to initiate landmark designation on July 27, 2021. At their January 19, 2022, hearing the Historic Preservation Commission recommended designation. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the landmark designation on April 26, 2022. More information is available in the Landmark Designation Report.

Trocadero Clubhouse, within Sigmund Stern Recreation Grove, northwest of 19th Avenue and Sloat Boulevard – San Francisco's 301st Landmark

Trocadero Clubhouse, constructed in 1892 as a roadhouse and inn by George W. Green, Jr., is historically significant as one of the earliest buildings in the Parkside District and one of the only extant 19th century structures in southwestern San Francisco. The building is also architecturally and historically significant as an excellent and well-preserved example of Stick-Eastlake architectural style and as the city’s last intact example of a 19th century roadhouse. The building is also significant for its association with the development of recreational facilities in San Francisco, first as a roadhouse and out-of-town getaway in the Outside Lands, and then as part of what became Sigmund Stern Recreation Grove. The period of significance is 1892 to 1949.

UPDATE: The Board of Supervisors voted to initiate landmark designation on March 9, 2021. At their September 15, 2021, hearing the Historic Preservation Commission recommended designation. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the landmark designation on April 5, 2022. More information is available in the Landmark Designation Report.

Golden Gate Valley Carnegie Library, 1801 Green Street – San Francisco's 300th Landmark

The Golden Gate Valley Carnegie Library is significant for its association with patterns of social and cultural history in San Francisco during the twentieth century. Completed in 1918 as part of the Carnegie Library Grant Program, the building has been in use continuously as a public library since its construction. The Carnegie Library Grant Program was established by Progressive Industrialist Andrew Carnegie in 1886 and intended to fund the construction of libraries for public use. The Golden Gate Valley Carnegie Library is also significant as an excellent example of an institutional building designed in the Beaux Arts style by master architect Ernest Coxhead. The library embodies Progressive Era and City Beautiful tenets and is one of seven Carnegie libraries constructed in San Francisco.

UPDATE: At the November 3, 2021 hearing the Historic Preservation Commission initiated designation. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the landmark designation on December 1, 2021. More information is available in the Landmark Designation Report.

Jones-Thierbach Coffee Company Building, 447 Battery Street – San Francisco's 299th Landmark

Designed by architect Frank S. Van Trees in a simple store-and-warehouse style typical of late nineteenth and early twentieth century industrial and commercial buildings, 447 Battery Street was constructed in 1907. The building was owned and occupied by Charles Thierbach as a coffee roasting and wholesale company called Thierbach & Co. from 1907-1912 and then as Jones-Thierbach Co., from 1912 to 1967, following merger with Jones-Paddock Company. Jones-Thierbach Coffee Company, a medium-sized coffee roasting and wholesaling company, used the subject building as the company’s coffee roastery, storage warehouse, offices, packaging, and manufacturing facility. First established during the Gold Rush-era, the coffee (and tea) industry represented a significant commercial sector in San Francisco during the second half of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century. 447 Battery Street is historically significant for its association with significant historic events, specifically with the San Francisco coffee industry and with reconstruction of downtown San Francisco following the 1906 earthquake and fires. 447 Battery Street is the only known building with the original use of coffee roasting and warehousing to remain in what was the historic center of this highly important local industry. The period of significance is 1907 to 1967.

UPDATE: The Board of Supervisors voted to initiate landmark designation on January 12, 2021. At their August 4, 2021, hearing the Historic Preservation Commission recommended designation. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the landmark designation on March 15, 2022. More information is available in the Landmark Designation Report.

Allegory of California, 155 Sansome Street (located within The City Club of San Francisco) – San Francisco's 298th Landmark

Allegory of California, a fresco painted by artist Diego Rivera and assistants Viscount John Hastings (Lord Hastings), William Musick, Clifford Wight, and plasterer Matthew Barnes, between mid-December 1930 and March 1931, on the two-story wall and ceiling of an interior staircase that connects the 10th and 11th floors of The City Club of San Francisco (formerly Pacific Stock Exchange Luncheon Club), depicts the vibrancy of California’s past, present, and future economy. Classic themes and motifs found in Rivera compositions, namely harmony between nature and machine, a glorification of the past while looking toward the future, and a panorama of historical figures are evident in the artwork. The fresco is culturally and historically significant as the work of preeminent Mexican artist, Diego Rivera. Allegory of California, the first fresco painted by Rivera in San Francisco and in the United States, is also culturally significant for its association with Latinx and Chicanx arts communities, a significant and vibrant part of San Francisco’s cultural heritage. The period of significance is 1931.

UPDATE: The Board of Supervisors voted to initiate landmark designation on April 27, 2021. At their November 3, 2021 hearing, the Historic Preservation Commission recommended designation. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the landmark designation on March 14, 2022. More information is available in the Landmark Designation Report.

One Montgomery Street (Crocker National Bank Building), 1-25 Montgomery Street – San Francisco's 297th Landmark

One Montgomery Street (Crocker National Bank Building), 1-25 Montgomery Street, was designed for First National Bank (later Crocker National Bank) in its first phase (1908) by architect Willis Polk and its second phase (1920) by architect Charles E. Gottschalk with exterior and interior features by craftsman Arthur Putnam and sculptor Emily Michels. One Montgomery Street is architecturally and historically significant as an excellent and well-preserved example of an early twentieth century banking temple building type in Italian Renaissance Revival style that exhibits high artistic values, was designed (in its first phase) by recognized architect of merit Willis Polk and includes the work of well-known craftsman Arthur Putnam. One Montgomery Street retains one of downtown San Francisco’s most imposing publicly accessible spaces, its monumental, double-height, open volume interior described in Splendid Survivors, San Francisco’s Downtown Architectural Heritage, as a grand interior with its “… sumptuous marble furnishings, fluted columns and coffered ceilings.” One Montgomery Street is also historically significant for its association with reconstruction of the Financial District following the 1906 Earthquake and Fires. The period of significance is 1908 to 1924.

UPDATE: The Board of Supervisors voted to initiate landmark designation on January 12, 2021. At their August 4, 2021, hearing the Historic Preservation Commission recommended designation. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the landmark designation on March 8, 2022. More information is available in the Landmark Designation Report.

Casa Sanchez, 2778 24th Street – San Francisco's 296th Landmark

Casa Sanchez, 2778 24th Street, is significant for its association with the development of San Francisco’s Latinx business community, particularly that of the Mission District, during the 20th century and increased representation of Latinos in citywide commerce organizations. A multi-generational family-owned and -operated company, Casa Sanchez was founded by Roberto and Isabel Sanchez in 1924 with a popular “Mexicatessen” that sold a variety of prepared Mexican foods and was the first mechanized tortilla factory in the city. The Casa Sanchez company is the longest-operating tamale and tortilla factory in San Francisco. The family-owned business opened its namesake restaurant at 2778 24th Street in 1968; the restaurant closed in 2011. While occupying the subject property, the Casa Sanchez company expanded their wholesale business, which grew from being the first in the country to distribute fresh salsa, to placing its products in mainstream grocery stores throughout California and beyond. The period of significance is 1968 to 2011.

UPDATE: The Historic Preservation Commission voted to initiate landmark designation on January 20, 2021, and to recommend designation on October 6, 2021. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the landmark designation on February 11, 2022. More information is available in the Landmark Designation Report.

San Francisco Eagle Bar, 396-398 12th Street – San Francisco's 295th Landmark

The San Francisco Eagle Bar is significant for its association with San Francisco’s South of Market (SoMa) Leather and LGBTQ communities. Established in 1981, the Eagle is SoMa’s longest running Leather/LGBTQ bar. As a de-facto community center, the venue has been home to a wide array of activities and events including fundraisers, leather contests, live music and comedy performances, art exhibits, and political organizing. Opening just before the onset of the AIDS epidemic, the venue’s extensive AIDS fundraising efforts have collectively raised millions of dollars through signature events including the annual Bare Chest Calendar and Sunday Beer Busts. Utilized by a variety of LGBTQ social, cultural and political organizations, many of the events have taken place on the venue’s spacious outdoor patio. The Eagle has associations with four of the themes outlined in the Citywide Historic Context Statement for LGBTQ History in San Francisco, as follows: Evolution of LGBTQ Enclaves and Development of New Neighborhoods (1960s to 1980s), Gay Liberation, Pride, and Politics (1960s to 1990s), Building LGBTQ Communities (1960s to 1990s), and San Francisco and the AIDS Epidemic (1981 to 1990s). Further significance also lies in the Eagle’s association with four individuals who played prominent roles in shaping SoMa’s Leather scene including Marcus Hernandez, Alan Selby, Terry Thompson, and Robert Uyvari.

UPDATE: At the May 19, 2021 hearing the Historic Preservation Commission recommended designation. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the landmark designation on October 19, 2021. More information is available in the Landmark Designation Report.

The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City, 800 Chestnut Street (located within the San Francisco Art Institute) – San Francisco's 294th Landmark

The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City, painted by artist Diego Rivera and assistants Viscount John Hastings (Lord Hastings), Clifford Wight, and Matthew Barnes between May 1 and 31, 1931 on the north wall of an exhibition gallery at San Francisco Art Institute (formerly California School of Fine Arts), demonstrates familiar themes in Rivera’s work on the critical importance of labor in the artistic and creative process. The fresco is culturally and historically significant as the work of preeminent Mexican artist, Diego Rivera. The fresco, designed and painted on a wall selected by the artist, reflects its immediate environment, physically and artistically, and is also significant for its association with art education at SFAI, contributing to an expanded academic field of study in mural and fresco painting and influencing many generations of artists that have taught or attended SFAI. The Making of a Fresco, and the academic program and artists that evolved from it, is also significant for its influence on the New Deal-era Works Project Administration mural program. The fresco is also culturally significant for its association with Latinx and Chicanx arts communities through its direct lineage with the Mission Mural movement (also known as community mural movement), a significant and vibrant part of San Francisco’s cultural heritage. The period of significance is 1931 to 1974.

UPDATE: The Board of Supervisors voted to initiate landmark designation on January 14, 2021. At their May 5, 2021 hearing the Historic Preservation Commission recommended designation. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the landmark designation on October 5, 2021. More information is available in the Landmark Designation Report.

Ingleside Terraces Sundial and Sundial Park, Entrada Court – San Francisco's 293rd Landmark

The Ingleside Terraces Sundial and Sundial Park are significant for their association with the development of residence park neighborhoods in San Francisco in the early twentieth century. The Ingleside Terraces neighborhood was established in 1911 and developed by the Urban Realty Improvement Company (URICO) led by architect and engineer Joseph A. Leonard (1850-1929). Ingleside Terraces is comprised of single-family homes largely constructed 1911 through the 1920s in a variety of architectural styles, including Craftsman, Mediterranean, Spanish Colonial Revival, and other period revival styles. The neighborhood was developed as a residence park composed of houses sited on large lots, curvilinear streets, neighborhood parks, and ornamental landscape features. The Ingleside Terraces Sundial and Sundial Park are significant as an excellent example of the public landscape features common to residence park developments of the period. The Sundial and Sundial Park are further significant as a visual landmark associated with the Ingleside Terraces neighborhood.

UPDATE:The Board of Supervisors voted to initiate landmark designation on December 8, 2020. At the April 7, 2021 hearing the Historic Preservation Commission recommended designation. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the landmark designation on September 28, 2021. More information is available in the Landmark Designation Report.

Lyon-Martin House, 651 Duncan Street – San Francisco's 292nd Landmark

The Lyon-Martin House is significant for association with the development of the homophile movement in San Francisco through the founding in 1955 of the Daughters of Bilitis (DOB), the nation’s first lesbian-rights organization, and for association with Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin, both pioneering lesbian-rights and feminist activists. Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin were both internationally known lesbian-rights activists with deep roots in the LGBTQ civil rights movement and were also the first same-sex couple to be married in San Francisco in 2004 and in 2008. Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon were one of the four couples that founded the Daughters of Bilitis in San Francisco and they often hosted DOB parties and fundraising events in their home during the early years of the organization, when it was a secret group. The first national lesbian-rights organization in the United States, Daughters of Bilitis (DOB), was initially organized as a social group where lesbians could meet and socialize. The organization soon added a newsletter, The Ladder, which became an internationally known magazine, and then to develop a network of local chapters and public biennial conventions on issues of importance to lesbians and gay men. 651 Duncan Street was Lyon’s and Martin’s residence and the place that is most representative of their productive lives as activists, organizers, writers, educators, and icons. As outlined in Citywide Historic Context Statement for LGBTQ History in San Francisco, the Lyon-Martin House is associated with significant events and persons under Theme 4: Homophile Movements (1950s to 1960s). The Daughters of Bilitis, Phyllis Lyon, Del Martin, and “…their home in San Francisco’s Noe Valley neighborhood” are also discussed in the National Park Service’s LGBT America, A Theme Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History.

UPDATE: The Board of Supervisors voted to initiate landmark designation on October 19, 2020. At the February 17, 2021 hearing the Historic Preservation Commission recommended designation. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the landmark designation on May 11, 2021. More information is available in the Landmark Designation Report.

Japanese YWCA/Issei Women's Building, 1830 Sutter Street – San Francisco's 291st Landmark

The Japanese YWCA/Issei Women’s Building is significant for its association with Japanese American history and culture in San Francisco, specifically, with Japanese American women who founded the first independent Japanese YWCA in the United States and commissioned what appears to be the only building purpose-built by and for Issei women in the United States. The building is also significant for its association with the African American civil rights movement, as the building served as the San Francisco chapter of the Committee on Racial Equality (CORE) and was the site of numerous meetings, events, trainings, and gatherings organized to advance the civil rights of African Americans during the 1942-1959 tenancy of the American Friends Service Committee. The building is further significant for its association with the advancement of LGBTQ rights, as the building was the center of civil rights leader Bayard Rustin’s organizing work early in his career ,and was the site of pioneering LGBTQ organization the Mattachine Society’s first convention in 1954. Lastly, 1830 Sutter Street is architecturally significant as the work of master architect Julia Morgan.

UPDATE: On April 20, 2021, the Board of Supervisors voted to approve the landmark designation. More information is available in the Landmark Designation Report.

“History of Medicine in California” Frescoes 533 Parnassus Avenue (within UC Hall) – San Francisco's 289th Landmark

The “History of Medicine in California” frescoes, created by artist Bernard Zakheim and his assistant Phyllis Wrightson onsite at the University of California, San Francisco’s Parnassus campus from 1936-1938, were partially funded through the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Art Project, a work relief program for thousands of unemployed actors, musicians, writers, historians, and other creative professionals and white-collar workers. The “History of Medicine in California” frescoes consist of 12 panels (10 pictorial and 2 descriptive) depicting California medical history with vivid, diverse images of doctors, lab scientists, and other medical professionals, and of suffering and recovered patients. The mural cycle “The History of Medicine in California” is significant as an excellent example of New Deal-era mural artwork, displaying the distinctive characteristics of New Deal-era frescos with a consistent earth-toned palette, intense saturated colors, figurative content, rounded forms, and overall stylistic influence of the Mexican mural movement of the 1920s. “History of Medicine in California” is also significant as the work of by master artist and muralist, Bernard Zakheim. The “History of Medicine in California” is the largest, most immersive fresco buono work of Zakheim’s career and the last fresco commission the artist completed in San Francisco. The period of significance for the “History of Medicine in California” frescoes is 1936-1938.

UPDATE: The Board of Supervisors voted to initiate landmark designation on July 28, 2020. At the August 19, 2020 hearing the Historic Preservation Commission recommended designation. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the landmark designation on November 17, 2020. More information is available in the Landmark Designation Report.

The Kinmon Gakuen Building, 2031 Bush Street – San Francisco's 288th Landmark

The Kinmon Gakuen Building is significant for its association with the social, cultural, and educational enrichment of Japanese Americans in San Francisco during the twentieth century as the home of Japanese language and culture school, Kinmon Gakuen (“Golden Gate Institute”), from 1926 to the present. It is also associated with the experience of the Japanese community in San Francisco during World War II and following the signing of Executive Order No. 9066 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1942. The building was used as a processing center where citizens and non‐citizens of Japanese ancestry were required to report before being relocated to concentration camps across the country. The building is also significant for its association with community organizing and activism among African Americans in San Francisco during the twentieth century. The center provided African Americans, especially youth, with a space for social, educational, and recreational opportunities. Lastly, the building itself is an excellent example of an educational building designed in the Mediterranean Revival architectural style in San Francisco, a popular design aesthetic for school buildings during the 1920s and 1930s.

UPDATE: At the February 6, 2019 hearing the Historic Preservation Commission initiated designation. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the landmark designation on October 22, 2019. More information is available in the Landmark Designation Report.

Paper Doll Bar, 524 Union Street – San Francisco's 287th Landmark

The Paper Doll Bar is significant as one of the earliest lesbian bars and helped to contribute to the development of LGBTQ communities in San Francisco. The Paper Doll is also significant for its association with Dante Benedetti. As the owner of the Paper Doll, he became one of the people on the front lines in the fight for LBGTQ civil rights in San Francisco in the 1950s.

UPDATE: At the September 5, 2018 hearing the Historic Preservation Commission initiated designation. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the landmark designation on June 18, 2019. More information is available in the Landmark Designation Report.

Sunshine School, 2728 Bryant Street – San Francisco's 286th Landmark

Built in 1935-37 as a as a Public Works Administration (PWA) project for the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), the Sunshine School was planned in consultation with public health professionals and teachers experienced in instructing disabled and chronically ill students. It was a collaborative venture of four prominent architects: Albert A. Schroepfer, Charles F. Strothoff, Martin J. Rist, and Smith O’Brien. With a barrier‐free first floor level, the Sunshine School anticipated by decades the passage of the Architectural Barriers Act (ABA) of 1968 and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990. Designed in the Spanish Colonial Revival style with Moorish and Art Deco detailing, the former Sunshine School is an excellent and well‐preserved public school constructed during the height of San Francisco’s “Golden Age” of school construction.
UPDATE: At the October 18, 2017, the Historic Preservation Commission initiated designation. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the landmark designation on March 5, 2019. More information is available in the Landmark Designation Report.

Theodore Roosevelt Middle School, 460 Arguello Boulevard – San Francisco's 285th Landmark

Theodore Roosevelt Middle School is an excellent and well‐preserved public school built during the “Golden Age” of school construction in San Francisco. Designed by master architect Timothy Pflueger of Miller & Pflueger Architects, Roosevelt is one of San Francisco’s most idiosyncratic buildings due to its unique Dutch/German Expressionist styling. It is the only building in San Francisco (and possibly the United States) known to be designed in this avantgarde style. Theodore Roosevelt Middle School is significant for its association with master architect Timothy Pflueger, one of the most talented and influential architects to have worked in San Francisco
during the first half of the twentieth century. Roosevelt is also significant for its association with high artistic values, in particular its three well‐preserved New Deal murals, including a pair in the main lobby by Horatio Nelson Poole and one above the second‐floor entrance to the auditorium by George Wilson Walker.
UPDATE: At the October 18, 2017, the Historic Preservation Commission initiated designation. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the landmark designation on March 5, 2019. More information is available in the Landmark Designation Report.

Benedict-Gieling House, 22 Beaver Street – San Francisco's 284th Landmark

Constructed circa 1870 by a silver refiner named Jacob Benedict and his family, the Benedict-Gieling House and its carriage house is a very early and well-preserved example of an Italianate villa located within a landscaped garden setting. The house embodies many characteristics of the Italianate villa type, including its portico, tower, cross-gable roof, bracketed cornice, fluted door and window trim, and segmental-arched windows with bracketed hoods. In contrast to the much more common Italianate rowhouse which usually has only one ornamented façade, there is Italianate detailing on three of its four exterior elevations, indicating that it was meant to be appreciated within its landscaped garden setting unobscured by adjoining buildings. It slowly deteriorated as a boarding house in the 1940s through 1950s until 1964 when John and Imogene “Tex” Gieling carefully began restoration.
UPDATE: At the September 19, 2018 hearing, the Historic Preservation Commission initiated designation. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the landmark designation on February 12, 2019. More information is available in the Landmark Designation Report.

Dunham, Hayden & Carrigan Building, 2 Henry Adams Street – San Francisco's 283rd Landmark

The building is significant for its long-term association with the Dunham, Carrigan & Hayden Company, a business that was important to San Francisco history for decades and that contributed directly, through its products, to the Gold Rush, the post 1906 reconstruction of the City, and to its growth as a metropolis of the Pacific Coast. 2 Henry Adams Street is also associated with the City’s post-earthquake reconstruction period architecture. The heavy timber frame, masonry building was designed by architect Leo J. Delvin in 1915 in the early-twentieth century American Commercial style.
UPDATE: The Historic Preservation Commission initiated designation on November 7, 2018. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the landmark designation on January 15, 2019. More information is available in the Landmark Designation Report.

Hotel Utah, 500-504 4th Street – San Francisco's 282nd Landmark

The Hotel Utah is a rare remaining example of the numerous residential hotels built in the South of Market neighborhood in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Constructed largely to house itinerant and seasonal workers employed in nearby factories and industries along the waterfront, the hotel is emblematic of a pattern of the development in South of Market that began in the mid‐1800s and continued through the post‐1906 earthquake and fire reconstruction. The hotel is particularly notable for surviving the large‐scale redevelopment of South of Market during the mid-twentieth century during which much of the building stock, including nearly all the residential hotels, dating to the period when the neighborhood served as the city’s industrial and manufacturing center was razed. With its ornate millwork, rounded and angled bays, the Hotel Utah is also a striking example of Edwardian style architecture commonly employed in the design of residential hotel buildings constructed during the period.
UPDATE: At the March 21, 2018 hearing, the Historic Preservation Commission initiated designation. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the landmark designation on October 23, 2018. More information is available in the Landmark Designation Report.

Pile Drivers, Bridge and Structural Ironworkers Local No. 77 Union Hall, 457 Bryant Street – San Francisco's 281st Landmark

The Pile Drivers, Bridge and Structural Ironworkers Local No. 77 Union Hall is one of the early extant union halls in San Francisco that played an important role in the growth of organized labor in the city. Constructed shortly after the 1906 Earthquake and Fire, the building is also associated with the post disaster reconstruction era in San Francisco.
UPDATE: At the March 21, 2018 hearing, the Historic Preservation Commission initiated designation. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the landmark designation on October 23, 2018. More information is available in the Landmark Designation Report.

New Pullman Hotel, 228-248 Townsend Street – San Francisco's 280th Landmark

The New Pullman Hotel is as a rare remaining example of the once numerous residential hotels built in the South of Market during the post 1906‐earthquake and fire reconstruction period and as the primary lodging venue in San Francisco for African American railroad workers, including Pullman porters and maids, during the first half of the twentieth century. As a group, Pullman porters and maids are nationally significant for establishing the first all‐Black union in the country, contributing to the development of the African American middle class, and laying important foundations for the Civil Rights Movement. 228‐248 Townsend Street is the only known property in San Francisco that has strong associations with Pullman porters and maids.
UPDATE: At the March 21, 2018 hearing, the Historic Preservation Commission initiated designation. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the landmark designation on October 23, 2018. More information is available in the Landmark Designation Report.

Arthur H. Coleman Medical Center, 6301 Third Street – San Francisco's 279th Landmark

The Arthur H. Coleman Medical Center is significant for its association with Dr. Arthur H. Coleman, a nationally prominent African American lawyer-physician and influential healthcare and civil rights advocate. Dr. Coleman purchased the property at 6301 Third Street to construct a purpose-built medical facility to serve Bayview residents. Opening in 1960, the Arthur H. Coleman Medical Center reflected the popular architectural styles of the period, and served as a modern symbol of community health, progress, and success. He recruited a team of African American physicians to join him in his vision of providing comprehensive health services to the area’s low-income African American residents. Dr. Coleman was celebrated as a local pioneer in the nationally significant community health center movement that began in the 1960s, worked tirelessly to achieve racial equity within the healthcare system and the medical profession, and advocated for the needs of the Bayview’s African American community.
UPDATE: At the April 18, 2018 hearing, the Historic Preservation Commission initiated designation. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the landmark designation on July 31, 2018. More information is available in the Landmark Designation Report.

Phillips Building, 234-246 First Street – San Francisco's 278th Landmark

Designed in 1930 by prominent local architects Henry H. Meyers and George R. Klinkhardt, the Phillips Building is significant as a distinctive and intact example of the Art Deco style, a comparatively rare style in San Francisco. The building was constructed to house the new printing operation of the Phillips & Van Orden Company, which occupied the building from 1930 until approximately 1947.
UPDATE: At the December 6, 2017 hearing, the Historic Preservation Commission initiated designation. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the landmark designation on June 26, 2018. More information is available in the Landmark Designation Report.

New Era Hall, 2117-2123 Market Street – San Francisco's 277th Landmark

New Era Hall is one of only nine known purpose-built social halls with commercial spaces designed in the Classical Revival style with Craftsman details by master architect August Nordin. Completed just seven months after the 1906 Earthquake and Fire, New Era Hall provided crucial meeting space for organizations displaced by the disaster, such as the Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, and the Woodmen of the World. It also housed the Visalia Stock Saddle Company, a pioneer Mexican-American business that developed what is today known as the "western saddle." The building uses an innovative structural system in order to avoid the need for structural support columns, thus creating large, open assembly spaces while conserving building materials.
UPDATE: At the December 7, 2016 hearing, the Historic Preservation Commission initiated designation. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the landmark designation on March 28, 2018. More information is available in the Landmark Designation Report.

Gaughran House, 2731-2735 Folsom Street – San Francisco's 276th Landmark

Constructed in 1900 for James Gaughran, the original owner, the Gaughran House is characteristic of pre-1906 construction that occurred following improved transit routes in the Mission District, which is considered the first southerly "streetcar suburb" of San Francisco. With its rusticated ground floor, a tripartite composition, molded surrounds, exuberant surface ornamentation, and arched openings, Gaughran House is a notable work of local master architect James Francis Dunn (1874-1921) and a fine example of residential Beaux-Arts architecture. The building is clearly identifiable as a James Dunn building, especially with its intricately molded balcony topped by an elaborate wrought iron railing – a feature that Dunn frequently used in his apartment building designs.
UPDATE: At the March 15, 2017 hearing, the Historic Preservation Commission initiated designation. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the landmark designation on December 15, 2017. More information is available in the Landmark Designation Report.

Third Baptist Church Complex, 1399 McAllister Street – San Francisco's 275th Landmark

Founded in 1852 as the First Colored Baptist Church of San Francisco, Third Baptist Church (renamed in 1855) was the first African American Baptist congregation formed west of the Rocky Mountains and remained the only black Baptist church in San Francisco until the early 1940s. Third Baptist Church has played an important role in promoting black community leadership as well as the social, economic, and political advancement of African Americans in San Francisco. Reverend Frederick Douglas Haynes Sr., emerged as a highly influential leader in San Francisco's civil rights movement and in 1945 was the first African American to run for a position on the Board of Supervisors. Although he never held office, in 1996, the subsequent pastor of Third Baptist Church, Reverend Dr. Amos C. Brown, became the city's second African American member of the Board of Supervisors. The property at 1399 McAllister Street is among several African American protestant churches constructed in San Francisco during the postwar period and one of the first churches in the city to brake from the traditional representations of ecclesiastical design with a new, simplified architectural expression that was thought to better articulate Protestant beliefs.
UPDATE: At the July 19, 2017 hearing, the Historic Preservation Commission initiated designation. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the landmark designation on November 14, 2017. More information is available in the Landmark Designation Report.

El Rey Theater, 1970 Ocean Avenue – San Francisco's 274th Landmark

Designed in the Art Deco style by master architect Timothy Pflueger, and built in 1931, the 1,800‐seat El Rey Theater is one of San Francisco's only Art Deco movie theaters and the biggest in the West of Twin Peaks area. The stepped, 150‐foot tower, originally capped by an aircraft beacon, soars above the surrounding district. Named El Rey – "The King" in Spanish – the former theater, which was most recently used as a church, continues to be the neighborhood's foremost visual landmark. Timothy Pflueger, the architect of El Rey, is one of San Francisco's top architects of the twentieth century. El Rey is one of only three theaters in the city that retains its original Pflueger designed auditorium. Built to serve the new residence parks and streetcar suburbs of the fast‐growing West of Twin Peaks area, El Rey was perhaps the grandest of all the so‐called "neighborhood theaters" that proliferated along major commercial corridors in the city's outlying neighborhoods between the First and Second World Wars.
UPDATE: At the January 18, 2017 hearing, the Historic Preservation Commission initiated designation. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the landmark designation on July 18, 2017. Click here to read more and the designation of San Francisco's 274th landmark: El Rey Theater Landmark Designation Report.

Ingleside Presbyterian Church and the Great Cloud of Witnesses, 1345 Ocean Avenue – San Francisco's 273rd Landmark

With its tripartite composition, symmetrically composed façade, dentiled cornice, and centrally located, full-height portico capped with a pediment and supported by Ionic columns and pilasters, the Ingleside Presbyterian Church illustrates the distinctive characteristics of the Neoclassical style as designed by master Architect Joseph Leonard. The interior of the church houses a collage-mural entitled The Great Cloud of Witnesses, which consists of newspaper and magazine clippings, posters, framed prints, and painted murals that have been pasted to the walls of all three levels. What began as Reverend Gordon's simple mission to provide images of role models to the community's youth has resulted in an awe-inspiring Folk Artist Environment that greatly contributes to the body of American and African American Folk Art and serves as an extraordinary, unparalleled visual documentation of national and San-Francisco-specific African American history.
UPDATE: At the July 1, 2016 hearing, the Historic Preservation Commission initiated designation amendment. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the landmark designation amendment on November 15, 2016. Click here to read more about the designation of San Francisco's 273rd landmark: Ingleside Presbyterian Church and the Great Cloud of Witnesses Landmark Designation Report.

Alemany Emergency Hospital and Health Center, 35-45 Onondaga Avenue – San Francisco's 272nd Landmark

The Alemany Emergency Hospital and Health Center were designed by City Architect, Charles H. Sawyer, and constructed in 1933. In addition to providing vital public health services for the Excelsior district, the Health Center contains two frescoes which were funded by the State Emergency Relief Administration and designed by the prominent artist, Bernard Zakheim.
UPDATE: At the February 17, 2016 hearing, the Historic Preservation Commission initiated designation of 35-45 Onondaga Avenue, the Alemany Emergency Hospital and Health Center, as an individual landmark. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the landmark designation on June 7, 2016. Click here to read more about San Francisco's 272nd landmark: 35-45 Onondaga Avenue Landmark Designation Report

Bourdette Building, 90-92 Second Street – San Francisco's 271st Landmark

Built in 1903-1904, the Bourdette Building is a remarkable survivor of the 1906 Earthquake and Fire. Among the more than 28,000 buildings that were destroyed during the disaster, it is the only building located within the burned districts to survive intact with no one inside or outside the building fighting to save it from the flames.
UPDATE: At the July 1, 2015 hearing, the Historic Preservation Commission initiated designation of 90-92 Second Street, the Bourdette Building, as an individual landmark. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the landmark designation on May 10, 2016. Click here to read more about San Francisco's 271st landmark: Bourdette Building Landmark Designation Report.

Cowell House, 171 San Marcos Avenue – San Francisco's 270th Landmark

Built in 1933, the Cowell House is the first known Modern residential building in San Francisco. It was designed by the architects Morrow (Irving) & Morrow (Gertrude), the designers of the Golden Gate Bridge. It reflects an early fusion of International Style, Streamline Moderne, and Second Bay Tradition. It was commissioned by Olive Thompson Cowell, founder of the International Relations Department at San Francisco State University. Henry Cowell, Olive's step-son and an innovative "ultra-modern" composer and pianist, played many concerts in the living room of the Cowell House.
UPDATE: At the July 15, 2015 hearing, the Historic Preservation Commission initiated designation of 171 San Marcos Avenue, the Cowell House as an individual landmark. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the landmark designation on April 12, 2016. Click here to read more about San Francisco's 270th landmark: Cowell House Landmark Designation Report.

University Mound Old Ladies' Home, 350 University Street – San Francisco's 269th Landmark

With its front door accentuated by a broken pediment, recessed tetrastyle portico supported by tall slender columns, numerous fanlights and multi‐pane windows, and symmetrically composed façade, the University Mound Old Ladies' Home illustrates the distinctive characteristics of the Colonial Revival style that was popular following the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg in the late 1920s. Constructed in 1931‐1932, the building represents the work of two master architects, Martin J. Rist and Alfred I. Coffey, both separately and in partnership were well known for their designs of institutional buildings, such as schools and hospitals.
The University Mound Old Ladies' Home was founded in 1884 with a $100,000 bequest from James Lick, one of the wealthiest men in California at that time. It originally sat on 25 acres of land which was farmed to provide food for the elderly women of modest means who lived there. The University Mound Old Ladies' Home was in operation for 130 years until 2014 when it was sold to a new nursing home provider.
UPDATE: At the May 20, 2015 hearing, the Historic Preservation Commission initiated designation of 350 University Street, University Mound Old Ladies' Home as an individual landmark. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the landmark designation in November 2015. Click here to read more about San Francisco's 269th landmark: University Mound Old Ladies' Home Landmark Designation Report.

R. (Rube) L. Goldberg Buildinge 182-198 Gough Street – San Francisco's 268th Landmark

The R.(Rube) L. Goldberg Building is significant as an early 20th century mixed-use building designed with Classically-inspired ornament and containing extraordinarily rare, intact storefronts. On its upper floors, the building features rusticated stucco cladding, bay windows flanked by pilaster panels, molded window surrounds with keystones, and a bracketed cornice and shaped parapet. The ground floor contains three historic storefronts displaying a remarkable state of preservation, including original bulkheads, display windows, vestibule paving, doors, and transom. The storefronts rank among the best preserved storefronts of their age. The property is also significant as the work of master architect, Bernard J. Joseph. The building is named after the Pulitzer-Prize winning cartoonist, sculptor, and author Rueben (Rube) Garnett Lucius Goldberg, and served as Goldberg's San Francisco residence and studio.
UPDATE: On November 19, 2014, the Historic Preservation Commission initiated designation of 186-198 Gough Street, the R.L. Goldberg Building. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the landmark designation on May 12, 2015, and on May 21, 2015 the Mayor signed designating ordinance. Click here to read more about the designation of San Francisco's 268th landmark: R.L. Goldberg Building Designation Report.: R.L. Goldberg Building Landmark Designation Report.

Swedish American Hall, 2168 Market Street – San Francisco's 267th Landmark

Built in 1907, the Swedish American Hall was designed by master architect August Nordin. It continues to serve as a cultural center for the Swedish American community and is significant for its cultural history and chalet-inspired architectural design.
UPDATE: At its November 19, 2014 hearing, the Historic Preservation Commission initiated designation the Swedish American Hall as an individual landmark. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the landmark designation on April 28, 2015. Click here to read more about San Francisco's 267th landmark: Swedish American Hall Landmark Designation Report.

Marcus Books / Jimbo's Bop City, 1712-1716 Fillmore Street – San Francisco's 266th Landmark

Built in the 1880s, 1712-1716 Fillmore Street is significant for its association with Jimbo's Bop City – a legendary jazz club in the Fillmore District (1950-1965) – and Marcus Books, the oldest independent African American bookstore in the country. It represents a tangible connection to the post-war African American experience in the Fillmore, the black intellectualism associated with Marcus Books and the shifts in geography and demographics associated with redevelopment in the Western Addition.
UPDATE: At the September 18, 2013 hearing, the Historic Preservation Commission initiated designation of 1712-1716 Fillmore Street, Marcus Books/Jimbo's Bop City, as an individual landmark. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the landmark designation on February 3, 2014. Click here to read more about San Francisco's 266th landmark: Marcus Books / Jimbo's Bop City Landmark Designation Report

Doelger Homes Sales Office 320-326 Judah Street – San Francisco's 265th Landmark

Built in the Sunset District in 1933 and added to in 1940, the former real estate sales office for residential tract developer Henry Doelger. The building's muscular and eye-catching Streamline Moderne design was an effective marketing tool in promoting Doelger's nearby tract developments.
UPDATE: At the September 19, 2012 hearing, the Historic Preservation Commission initiated designation of the Doelger Building, 320-326 Judah Street, as an individual landmark. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the landmark designation in April 2013. Click here to read more about San Francisco's 265th landmark: Doelger Building Landmark Designation Report.

Twin Peaks Tavern, 401 Castro Street – San Francisco's 264th Landmark

The Twin Peaks Tavern located at 401 Castro Street is associated with LGBT history. It is known as the first gay bar in San Francisco (opened in 1972) to feature large expanses of glass, which revealed rather than obscured the view of bar patrons. Housed in a remodeled turn-of-the-century building in the heart of the Castro, the bar retains its expansive windows and continues to serve the LGBT community.
UPDATE: At the September 19, 2012 hearing, the Historic Preservation Commission initiated designation of 401 Castro Street, Twin Peaks Tavern, as an individual landmark. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the landmark designation in January 2013. Click here to read more about San Francisco's 264th landmark: Twin Peaks Tavern Landmark Designation Report.

Sam Jordan's Bar, 4004 Third Street – San Francisco's 263rd Landmark

Sam Jordan's Bar is significant due to its association with the late Sam Jordan, a prominent African American community leader, Golden Gloves champion, pioneering African American business owner along the Third Street corridor in the Bayview District, and the first African American candidate for Mayor of San Francisco (1963). In 1959, Mr. Jordan opened Sam Jordan's Bar in a c.1880's building that was originally constructed adjacent to the corrals, slaughterhouses, and tanneries associated with "Butchertown."
The bar is still in operation and is one of the oldest continuously operating African American businesses along the Third Street corridor. Sam Jordan's Bar was known as an organizing space and catalyst for community-based initiatives and was part of network of African American bars and restaurants that served dual roles as neighborhood-serving charitable and social organizations.
UPDATE: At the June 20, 2012 hearing, the Historic Preservation Commission initiated designation of 4004-4006 Third Street, Sam Jordan's Bar, as an individual landmark. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the landmark designation in January 2013. Click here to read more about San Francisco's 263rd landmark: Sam Jordan's Bar Landmark Designation Report.

V. C. Morris Gift Shop, 140 Maiden Lane – San Francisco's 72nd Landmark

Frank Lloyd Wright's 140 Maiden Lane was designated as Landmark No. 72 in 1975. At that time, only the exterior features of the building were designated. In November 2016 the landmark designation was amended to include the double-height, mezzanine-ringed, top-lit circular interior space. Frank Lloyd Wright is by far the most well-know and influential American architect. Although Wright produced several designs for other buildings in San Francisco, the V. C. Morris Gift Shop is the only one that was realized. The V. C. Morris Gift Shop is significant as a rare extant Modern building designed by the master architect.
UPDATE: At the July 1, 2016 hearing, the Historic Preservation Commission initiated designation amendment. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the landmark designation amendment on November 15, 2016. Click here to read more about the amended designation of San Francisco's 72nd landmark: V. C. Morris Gift Shop Landmark Designation Report.

Duboce Park Landmark District

The landmark district contains nearly 90 residential buildings, identified for its exceptional and remarkably intact architectural character, and includes Duboce Park. Buildings within the district were constructed on land originally set aside as a public park. Litigation related to squatter's rights resulted in the partial subdivision of the original park (Duboce Park) into smaller, builder developed parcels. Many of the houses and flats were developed by Fernando Nelson, a prolific Victorian-era builder known for his exuberant ornamentation. This district was identified during the Market and Octavia Area Plan survey efforts.

UPDATE: The Duboce Park Landmark District is San Francisco's 13th Landmark District, and was approved in July 2013. More information is available in the Landmark Designation report.

Market Street Masonry Landmark District

The Paper Doll Bar is significant as one of the earliest lesbian bars and helped to contribute to the development of LGBTQ communities in San Francisco. The Paper Doll is also significant for its association with Dante Benedetti. As the owner of the Paper Doll, he became one of the people on the front lines in the fight for LBGTQ civil rights in San Francisco in the 1950s.

UPDATE: At the September 5, 2018 hearing the Historic Preservation Commission initiated designation. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the landmark designation on June 18, 2019. More information is available in the Landmark Designation Report.