The Bayview-Hunter's Point community is the focus of our Heritage in the Neighborhoods program for 2023. This is the first in a series of three articles drawn from the research in the Bayview-Hunters Point Survey, Historic Context Statement prepared by Kelley & VerPlanck for the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency (2010).| San Francisco Heritage
By the late 1960s, San Francisco city government had begun to awaken to preservation as a cultural and economic tool of revitalization and recognize that historic buildings drew both tourists and creative enterprises. A landmarking program was adopted into the city charter and 15 of the city’s first 27 designations were in Jackson Square| San Francisco Heritage
Jackson Square contains the city's only-surviving early commercial area, with well-built Gold Rush-era buildings that escaped destruction from serious fires in the 1850s and after, and from major earthquakes that struck the city between 1868 and 1906. What is today called the Hotaling Building at 451 Jackson Street (SF Landmark no. 12) is perhaps one of the district's most famous survivors.| San Francisco Heritage
Our focused work in parts of San Francisco under-represented by preservation work.| San Francisco Heritage
San Francisco Heritage's Heritage in the Neighborhoods program returns in June 2025 to spotlight Jackson Square, a significant three-block area on the south side of Telegraph Hill containing some of the earliest commercial structures in the city.| San Francisco Heritage
Ezra Reaves (they/he) is the director of The Compton's Cafeteria Riot, an immersive, interactive play directly inspired by the 1966 uprising in San Francisco’s Tenderloin that marked a seminal act of collective resistance in the ongoing fight for transgender rights.| San Francisco Heritage
Above photo caption: In January 2025, the site of the Compton’s Cafeteria Riot (101 Taylor Street) was placed in the National Register of Historic Places, the first such listing associated with the ongoing fight for transgender civil rights. March 31 is International Transgender Day of Visibility, celebrating the lives and contributions of trans people, drawing…| San Francisco Heritage
