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The neighborhood's name goes back to the Gold Rush-era, when settlers discovered a small Russian cemetery at the top of the hill. Russian naval and merchant ships frequently visited San Francisco throughout the 19th century beginning in 1806, and there are several mentions of burials of crew members in the Russian Hill cemetery in the first ...
Vallejo Street Crest in Russian Hill, 1906 after the earthquake. The area is roughly bound by 1020-1032 Broadway, 1-49 Florence Street, 1728-1742 Jones Street, 1-7 Russian Hill Place, 1629-1715 Taylor Street, and 1000-1085 Vallejo Street, in San Francisco, California, U.S. [3] The listing included 27 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 5 contributing structures. [4]
The Russian Hill-Paris Block Architectural District is a 1.5-acre (0.61 ha) historic district located in the Russian Hill area of San Francisco, California, that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 7, 1988, for architecture. [4] The area is a residential enclave. [5] [6]
The "Hills" chapter of Gladys Hansen's San Francisco Almanac [4] repeated the list given in Hills of San Francisco and added the then-recently-named Cathedral Hill for a total of 43, but the "Places" chapter [5] listed many additional hills. More recent lists include more hills, some lesser-known, some not on the mainland, and some without names.
Farther east along the lane. Macondray Lane is a small pedestrian lane on the southeastern side of Russian Hill in San Francisco, California.It forms a wooded enclave that was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988 as the Russian Hill–Macondray Lane District.
In San Francisco’s upscale Russian Hill neighborhood, there’s a gorgeous Edwardian-style home painted in periwinkle blue, selling for a surprising $488,800 — even though it’s worth $1.8 ...
Russian Hill is a great area of San Francisco. If you hoof it, you can easily walk to Fisherman's Wharf and North Beach neighborhoods. Also nearby is the great Polk Street neighborhood, which has ...
North Beach is a neighborhood in the northeast of San Francisco adjacent to Chinatown, the Financial District, and Russian Hill.The neighborhood is San Francisco's "Little Italy" and has historically been home to a large Italian American population, largely from Northern Italy. [5]