Historic Context Statements

To learn more about how these relate to SFSurvey, review the Framework for Citywide Historic and Cultural Context Statement.

Completed

Cultural

• Citywide Historic Context Statement for LBGTQ History in San Francisco (Adopted 2016)
  • The Development of Sexual Identity Based Subcultures (Adopted 2004)
  • LGBTQ+ Cultural Heritage Strategy (Published 2020)
• Japantown Cultural Heritage and Economic Sustainability Strategy (“JCHESS”) (Adopted 2013)
  • Supported by Japantown Historic Context Statement (as part of Better Neighborhoods Plan effort, not adopted)
• Filipino Heritage Addendum to South of Market Historic Context Statement (Adopted 2013)

Geographic

• Corbett Heights, San Francisco (Western Part of Eureka Valley) Historic Context Statement (Adopted 2017)
• Eureka Valley Historic Context Statement (Adopted 2017)
• Central SOMA Historic Context Statement (Adopted 2016)
• Historic Context Statement of the Oceanside: A Neighborhood of the Sunset District, San Francisco (Adopted 2012)
• Transit Center District Survey (includes HCS) (Adopted 2012)
• Showplace Square / Northeast Mission Survey (Adopted 2011)
• South of Market Area Historic Context Statement (Adopted 2011)
• Bayview Hunters Point Area B Survey Historic Context Statement (Adopted 2010)
• India Basin Survey and Context Statement (Adopted 2008)
• San Francisco’s Parkside District: A Historic Context Statement, 1905-1957 (Adopted 2008)
• City Within A City: Historic Context Statement for San Francisco’s Mission District (Adopted 2007)
• Market Octavia Plan Area Historic Context Statement (Adopted 2007)
• Inner Mission North Historic Context Statement (2004)
• Central Waterfront Survey and Context Statement(Adopted 2001)
• Market & Octavia Area Plan Amendment (formerly The Hub)
• Better Market Street
• North Beach – forthcoming

Thematic

• Earthquake Shacks Theme Document (Adopted 2021)
• Sunset District Residential Builders, 1925-1950 Historic Context Statement (Adopted 2013)
• San Francisco Modern Architecture and Landscape Design, 1935-1970 Historic Context Statement (Adopted 2011)
• Van Ness Auto Row Support Structures: A Survey of Automobile-Related Buildings along the Van Ness Avenue Corridor Architectural (Adopted 2010)
• Carnegie Branch Libraries of San Francisco (Adopted 2001)

Architectural

• A Context Statement and Survey of Unreinforced Masonry Buildings (UMB) 1850-1940 (Adopted 1991)

Actively in Progress

Note: as projects launch, webpage link will appear.

• African-American Citywide HCS
• Neighborhood Commercial Buildings, 1865-1965, HCS
• Gardens in the City - Residence Parks in San Francisco, 1906-1940, HCS
• Chinese-American Citywide HCS
• Architecture, Planning, & Preservation Professionals: A Collection of Biographies
• Early Settlement Era Styles (1848-c.1880)
• Gilded Age Styles (c.1870-c.1900)
• Progressive Era & Reconstruction Period Styles (c.1890-c.1915)
• Developer Tracts: Streetcar Suburbanization (1880-1920)
• Developer Tracts: Auto Suburbanization (1920-1950)

For More Information

Please email CPC.Survey@sfgov.org to learn about other contexts and themes under development.