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94115. Area codes. 415/628. Japantown ( Japanese: 日本町, Hepburn: Nihonmachi), also known historically as Japanese Town, is a neighborhood in the Western Addition district of San Francisco, California. Japantown comprises about six city blocks and is considered one of the largest and oldest ethnic enclaves in the United States.
415/628. The Mission District ( Spanish: Distrito de la Misión ), [4] commonly known as the Mission ( Spanish: La Misión ), [5] is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California. One of the oldest neighborhoods in San Francisco, the Mission District's name is derived from Mission San Francisco de Asís, built in 1776 by the Spanish. [6]
Hyde Street Pier, San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, 2905 Hyde Street. 37°48′37″N 122°25′22″W. / 37.8103°N 122.4227°W / 37.8103; -122.4227 ( ALMA (Scow Schooner)) Fisherman's Wharf. Flat-bottomed scow schooner built in 1891 to haul goods on and around San Francisco Bay and river delta areas. 5.
Donaldina Cameron (July 26, 1869 – January 4, 1968) was a New Zealand-born American Presbyterian missionary who was a pioneer in the fight against slavery in San Francisco's Chinatown, who helped more than 2,000 Chinese immigrant girls and women escape from forced prostitution or indentured servitude. [1] She was known as "Fahn Quai" or the ...
UTC−8 ( Pacific) • Summer ( DST) UTC−7 ( PDT) ZIP Codes. 94107, 94110, 94124. Area codes. 415/628. Potrero Hill is a residential neighborhood in San Francisco, California. A working-class neighborhood until gentrification in the late 1990s, it is now home to mostly upper-income residents.
The Mission Bay neighborhood is built on landfill located on San Francisco Bay south of Townsend Street, east of Interstate 280 and north of Mariposa Street. The new UCSF research campus at Mission Bay is part of the rapid growth of a new neighborhood of office buildings and luxury condominiums being built in an area that was formerly an ...
March 1, 1985. The Women's Building is a women-led non-profit arts and education community center located in San Francisco, California. The center advocates self-determination, gender equality and social justice. [2] The four-story building rents to multiple tenants and serves more than 20,000 women a year.
Painted ladies. Coordinates: 37°46′35″N 122°25′59″W. "Painted Ladies" near Alamo Square, San Francisco, California. In American architecture, painted ladies are Victorian and Edwardian houses and buildings repainted, starting in the 1960s, in three or more colors that embellish or enhance their architectural details.