Historic districts

The historic districts San Francisco's surveys have drawn, and the buildings documented inside each one. A district page lists every building here that stands within it, and the streets it runs through.

• 16th and Valencia Streets Post-Fire Historic District
  Eligible for the California and National Registers, significant 1906–1926; 55 buildings documented on 5 streets.
• 19th and Noe Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1905–1906; 11 buildings documented on one street.
• 23rd Street Shops and Rowhouses Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1873–1895; 21 buildings documented on 2 streets.
• Alabama Street Pioneers Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1865–1884; 18 buildings documented on 2 streets.
• Alamo Square Historic District
  An Article 10 city landmark district, significant 1890–1915; 31 buildings documented on 11 streets.
• Alert Alley Early Residential Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1890–1910; 18 buildings documented on 4 streets.
• Alphonso Harrington 42nd Avenue Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1910–1913; 15 buildings documented on one street.
• Ashbury Heights Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1890–1912; 5 buildings documented on 2 streets.
• Baker Street Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1926–1940; 10 buildings documented on 2 streets.
• Balboa Terrace Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1921–1939; 5 buildings documented on 4 streets.
• Bluxome Townsend Historic District
  Eligible for the California and National Registers, significant 1912–1936; 8 buildings documented on 3 streets.
• Buena Vista North Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1870–1915; 42 buildings documented on 9 streets.
• Bush Street Cottage Row Historic District
  An Article 10 city landmark district, significant 1874–1882; 18 buildings documented on 4 streets.
• Capp and Howard Streets Mid-Block Fire Line Historic District
  Eligible for the California and National Registers, significant 1865–1909; 5 buildings documented on 2 streets.
• Castro & Liberty Streets Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1897–1906; 47 buildings documented on 3 streets.
• Chinatown Historic District
  Eligible for the California and National Registers, significant 1906–1930/1938; 260 buildings documented on 31 streets.
• Chula-Abbey Early Residential District
  An Article 10 city landmark district, significant 1865–1912; 38 buildings documented on 5 streets.
• Chula-Dolores-17th Fire Survivors and Reconstruction Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1865–1880; 1907–1912; 39 buildings documented on 5 streets.
• Civic Center Historic District
  An Article 10 city landmark district, significant 1913–1951; 29 buildings documented on 10 streets.
• Clyde and Crooks Historic District
  An Article 10 city landmark district, significant 1906–1935; 18 buildings documented on 6 streets.
• Cole Valley Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1900–1915; 41 buildings documented on 10 streets.
• Commercial-Leidesdorff Conservation District
  An Article 11 conservation district; 18 buildings documented on 7 streets.
• Cow Hollow First Bay Tradition Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1888–1914; 56 buildings documented on 10 streets.
• Diamond & Elizabeth Streets Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1878–1915; 10 buildings documented on 9 streets.
• Diamond Heights Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1962–1965; 22 buildings documented on 5 streets.
• Dogpatch Historic District
  An Article 10 city landmark district, significant 1867–1945; 68 buildings documented on 6 streets.
• Duboce Park Historic District
  An Article 10 city landmark district, significant 1896–1913; 13 buildings documented on 4 streets.
• Duboce Triangle Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant ca 1870–ca 1920; 167 buildings documented on 9 streets.
• Duboce Triangle Historic District Extension
  Eligible for the California Register; 178 buildings documented on 8 streets.
• East Mission Florida-to-Hampshire Streets Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1885–1908; 89 buildings documented on 5 streets.
• Elgin Park-Pearl Street Reconstruction Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1906–1913; 35 buildings documented on 4 streets.
• Eureka Valley Commercial & Castro Village LGBTQ+ Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1879–1932; 1963–1980; 72 buildings documented on 4 streets.
• Fair Oaks Street Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1870s–1910s; 49 buildings documented on 4 streets.
• Forest Hill Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1912–1939; 20 buildings documented on 11 streets.
• Front-California Conservation District
  An Article 11 conservation district; 14 buildings documented on 4 streets.
• Gardner Dailey/Telegraph Hill Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1936–1959; 5 buildings documented on 3 streets.
• Glen Park Center Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1897–1929; 7 buildings documented on 2 streets.
• Gottlieb Knopf Block Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1889–1892, 1920–1940; 35 buildings documented on 4 streets.
• Guerrero Street Fire Line Historic District
  Eligible for the California and National Registers, significant 1870–1906; 12 buildings documented on 3 streets.
• Haight Ashbury Counterculture Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1966–1975; 26 buildings documented on 4 streets.
• Hampshire Street False-Front Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1885–1895; 14 buildings documented on one street.
• Hartford Street Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1900–1902; 24 buildings documented on 3 streets.
• Hayes Valley Commercial Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant ca 1855–1929; 41 buildings documented on 7 streets.
• Hayes Valley Residential Historic District
  Listed on the California Register, significant 1860–1920; 433 buildings documented on 28 streets.
• Hidalgo Terrace Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1914–1930; 14 buildings documented on 2 streets.
• Horner's Addition East Historic District
  Eligible for the California and National Registers, significant 1865–1905; 74 buildings documented on 6 streets.
• India Basin Scow Schooner Boatyard Vernacular Cultural Landscape
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1875–1936; 5 buildings documented on 3 streets.
• Ingleside Terrace Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1910–1930; 58 buildings documented on 14 streets.
• Inner Mission Boulevards and Alleys Reconstruction Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1906–1917; 141 buildings documented on 10 streets.
• Jackson Square Historic District
  An Article 10 city landmark district, significant 1850–1911; 48 buildings documented on 10 streets.
• Jackson Square Historic District Extension
  Eligible for the California and National Registers, significant 1865–1920; 23 buildings documented on 6 streets.
• Japantown Community & Cultural Historic District
  Eligible for the California and National Registers, significant 1906–1960; 22 buildings documented on 6 streets.
• Jessie-McCoppin-Stevenson Streets Reconstruction Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1906–1912; 17 buildings documented on 3 streets.
• Jordan Park Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1900–1920; 28 buildings documented on 7 streets.
• Juri Street Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1890–1895; 8 buildings documented on 2 streets.
• Kearny-Belden Conservation District
  An Article 11 conservation district; 8 buildings documented on 4 streets.
• Kearny-Market-Mason-Sutter Conservation District
  An Article 11 conservation district; 248 buildings documented on 27 streets.
• Lexington and San Carlos Streets Reconstruction Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1906–1915; 45 buildings documented on 4 streets.
• Liberty Hill Historic District
  An Article 10 city landmark district, significant 1860s–1906; 258 buildings documented on 9 streets.
• Liberty Street Historic District
  Listed on the California and National Registers, significant 1867–1911; 46 buildings documented on 2 streets.
• Lower Nob Hill Apartment Hotel Historic District
  Listed on the California and National Registers, significant 1906–1940; 211 buildings documented on 20 streets.
• Lower Nob Hill Apartment Hotel Historic District - Addition
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1906–1940; 5 buildings documented on 2 streets.
• Marina Corporation Residential Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1922–1939; 33 buildings documented on 11 streets.
• Marina Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1930–1940; 12 buildings documented on 5 streets.
• Market Street Masonry Historic District
  An Article 10 city landmark district, significant 1911–1925; 8 buildings documented on 4 streets.
• Market Street Theatre and Loft Historic District
  Listed on the California and National Registers, significant 1889–1930; 24 buildings documented on 6 streets.
• Mediterranean Revival Tracts Historic District
  Eligible for the California and National Registers, significant 1927–1938; 8 buildings documented on 4 streets.
• Midcentury Recreation Historic District (Discontiguous)
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1947–1961; 10 buildings documented on 10 streets.
• Mint-Mission Conservation District
  An Article 11 conservation district; 21 buildings documented on 6 streets.
• Mission Miracle Mile 19th to 20th Streets Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1906–1927; 1925–1960; 9 buildings documented on one street.
• Mission Miracle Mile at 17th Street Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1906–1924; 1925–1960; 18 buildings documented on 2 streets.
• NOPA Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1870s–1910s; 39 buildings documented on 14 streets.
• New Montgomery-Mission-Second Street Conservation District
  An Article 11 conservation district, significant 1906–1929; 70 buildings documented on 12 streets.
• Noe & Alvarado Streets Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1885–1915; 5 buildings documented on 3 streets.
• Northeast Waterfront Historic District
  An Article 10 city landmark district, significant [Unofficial] 1848–1960s; 21 buildings documented on 8 streets.
• Olsen's Queen Anne Cottages Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1893; 7 buildings documented on one street.
• Pacific Heights Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1895–1930; 96 buildings documented on 12 streets.
• Panhandle Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1870–1915; 49 buildings documented on 13 streets.
• Picturesque Period Revival Tracts Historic District
  Eligible for the California and National Registers, significant 1931–1938; 86 buildings documented on 8 streets.
• Pine-Sansome Conservation District
  An Article 11 conservation district; 8 buildings documented on 2 streets.
• Powell Street Shops Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1906–1924; 7 buildings documented on 2 streets.
• Presidio Heights Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1890–1930; 85 buildings documented on 10 streets.
• Presidio Terrace Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1905–1915; 18 buildings documented on 2 streets.
• Ramona Street Historic District
  Eligible for the California and National Registers, significant 1911–1923; 26 buildings documented on 3 streets.
• Raycliff Terrace Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1941–1951; 5 buildings documented on 2 streets.
• Russian Hill-Macondray Lane Historic District
  Listed on the California and National Registers, significant 1878–1930; 11 buildings documented on 4 streets.
• Russian Hill-Paris Block Architectural Historic District
  Listed on the California and National Registers, significant 1880–1925; 9 buildings documented on 2 streets.
• Russian Hill-Vallejo Street Crest Historic District
  Listed on the California and National Registers, significant 1888–1941; 35 buildings documented on 7 streets.
• San Francisco 1952 Firehouse Bond Act Thematic District (Discontiguous)
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1952–1961; 10 buildings documented on 10 streets.
• San Francisco Civic Center National Historic Landmark District
  Listed on the California and National Registers, significant 1913–1951 (I believe this is the POS for the NHL; the NR listing has a POS of 1800–1974, an unusually long range that the CLI attributes to different standards for identfying POS's at the time of the NR nomination (1978)); 6 buildings documented on 5 streets.
• San Francisco Neighborhood Movie Theater Historic District (Discontiguous)
  Eligible for the California and National Registers, significant 1906–1945; 19 buildings documented on 16 streets.
• Sea Cliff Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1913–1935; 29 buildings documented on 8 streets.
• Second and Howard Streets Historic District
  Listed on the California and National Registers, significant 1906–1912; 22 buildings documented on 4 streets.
• Shotwell Street Historic District
  Eligible for the California and National Registers, significant 1865–1905; 148 buildings documented on 10 streets.
• Showplace Square Heavy Timber and Steel-frame Brick Warehouse and Factory Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1893–1929; 13 buildings documented on 8 streets.
• Sixth Street Lodging House Historic District
  Eligible for the California and National Registers, significant 1870–1947; 33 buildings documented on 4 streets.
• SoMa LGBTQ Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant ca.1950s–ca.1990s; 56 buildings documented on 25 streets.
• South End Historic District
  An Article 10 city landmark district, significant 1867–1935; 40 buildings documented on 13 streets.
• South End Historic District Addition
  Eligible for the California and National Registers, significant 1906–1935; 17 buildings documented on 6 streets.
• South Mission Avenues and Alleys Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1885–1914; 88 buildings documented on 8 streets.
• South Park Historic District
  Eligible for the California and National Registers, significant 1854–1935; 32 buildings documented on one street.
• South Van Ness Avenue-Shotwell-Folsom Streets Historic District
  Eligible for the California and National Registers, significant 1870–1906; 21 buildings documented on 4 streets.
• Southeast Telegraph Hill Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1906–1913; 5 buildings documented on 2 streets.
• St. Francis Wood Historic District
  Listed on the California and National Registers, significant 1912–1954; 20 buildings documented on 14 streets.
• Sycamore Street Reconstruction Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1906–1917; 16 buildings documented on 4 streets.
• Telegraph Hill Historic District
  An Article 10 city landmark district; 13 buildings documented on 7 streets.
• Third Street Industrial District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1900–1948 / 1872–1958; 6 buildings documented on one street.
• Upper Fillmore Neighborhood Commercial Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1865–1905; 1906–1929; 18 buildings documented on 2 streets.
• Upper Grant Avenue Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1906–1925; 115 buildings documented on 11 streets.
• Upper Market Street Commercial Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1886–1958; 1970–1979; 31 buildings documented on 3 streets.
• Upper Market Street Commercial Historic District Extension
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1886–1958; 1970–1979; 14 buildings documented on one street.
• Uptown Tenderloin Historic District
  Listed on the California and National Registers, significant 1906–1957; 437 buildings documented on 21 streets.
• Vicente Street Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1931; 9 buildings documented on one street.
• Von Schroeder-Welsh Block Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1889–1895; 25 buildings documented on 2 streets.
• Washington Square Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1906–1939; 17 buildings documented on 7 streets.
• West Portal Park Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1916–1928 / 1917–1929; 5 buildings documented on one street.
• Western SOMA Light Industrial and Residential Historic District
  Eligible for the California and National Registers, significant 1906–1936; 244 buildings documented on 36 streets.
• Woodward St. Romeo Flats Reconstruction Historic District
  Eligible for the California Register, significant 1906–1912; 24 buildings documented on 3 streets.

47 further districts named on the pages here hold fewer than 5 documented buildings, and have no page yet.