Corbett Heights
The hillside neighborhood around Corbett Avenue, between Market Street and Twin Peaks, north-west of the Castro. Its streets include Corbett Avenue, Ord, Hattie, Danvers, Mars, Romain and Museum Way.
How the land was divided
McKee Subdivision40 lots; Clara St renamed Ord, 1909
Park Lane Tractfrom 1885
Street numbers changed1909
Because numbers and some street names changed in 1909, an address in an older record often does not match today's — 1200 Ashbury became 1200 Clayton, and 110 Clara became 110 Ord.
Streets documented so far
- Clayton Street
17 buildings, built 1895–1961; 1 in the Auxiliary Water Supply System (Discontiguous). - Corbett Avenue
7 buildings documented — from a 1905 flat above the earthquake refugee camp to post-war infill. - Danvers Street
2 buildings documented — survivors of the corner the Market Street extension erased. - Hattie Street
2 buildings, built 1900–1904. - Levant Street
1 building, built 1929. - Mars Street
10 buildings documented — a short, steep street photographed since about 1895 and rebuilt in the 1920s. - Museum Way
The Corona Heights museum the city dedicated to Josephine Randall in 1951. - Ord Court
1 building, built 1906. - Ord Street
9 buildings, built 1880–1932. - Romain Street
5 buildings, built 1935–1936. - Shrader Street
1 building, built 1907.
Historic districts here
Adjacent neighborhoods
The Castro lies downhill to the south-east; the two share the city's Castro/Upper Market boundary, which local histories divide at this hillside. Haight Ashbury is north, reached by Clayton and Ashbury Streets, and the Inner Sunset west over the Twin Peaks ridge.