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District 9 · Block 6519, Lot 039 · ZIP 94110

Carnaval Mural

1311–1315 South Van Ness Avenue · Mission

  • 3 stories
  • 4,950 ft2
  • 3,062 ft2 lot area
  • 18 rooms
  • 5 bathrooms
  • Wood frame
  • Zoned RH-3
  • Historic resource
  • City landmark #313
  • Sold March 8, 2000
Land$153,688
Improvements$338,124
Total assessed$491,812
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  1. 1900

    Built.

  2. 1905

    The three-story-over-basement wood-frame flats building whose north wall carries the mural went up around 1905, in an Edwardian manner.

    SF Planning, landmark designation
  3. 1982

    The San Francisco Arts Commission approached Oakland muralist Daniel Galvez to paint a mural here, funded through its Murals and Billboards community outreach program for the Mission District.

    SF Planning, landmark designation
  4. 1983

    The Carnaval mural, about 75 feet long and 24 feet high, was painted on the building's north wall by lead artist Daniel Galvez with Dan Fontes, Jaime Morgan, Jan Shields and Keith Sklar.

    SF Planning, landmark designation
  5. 1983

    The mural's dancers and drummers were taken from photographs of the 1979 Carnaval parade by photojournalist Lou Dematteis, the festival's first official photographer; it took six months to paint in a photo-realist style, with trompe l'oeil Victorian detail and a plank cutout of a dancer's arm reaching across a light well.

    SF Planning, landmark designation
  6. 1983

    The mural pictures 24th Street landmarks of the day, among them Galería de la Raza, the Discolandia record store, the restaurant Guadalajara de Noche, the York Theater and the Mission Cultural Center.

    SF Planning, landmark designation
  7. 1983

    The 1983 Carnaval parade and festival used the new mural in its program designs and posters.

    SF Planning, landmark designation
  8. February 21, 2008

    An Eastern Neighborhoods Mission survey recorded the building and found it individually eligible for the California Register; the mural itself was not evaluated.

    SF Planning, landmark designation
  9. 2014

    A Carnaval Mural Restoration Project formed by the muralist, the photographer and former Carnaval SF media coordinator Mauricio Aviles raised money for the faded mural, including a $50,000 Community Challenge Grant.

    SF Planning, landmark designation
  10. December 14, 2014

    Restored by Daniel Galvez with a team of artists and volunteers, the mural was rededicated with a celebration that included the city's poet laureate, Alejandro Murguía.

    SF Planning, landmark designation
  11. Apr 2016
    Permit 201604144828 $$$ $35,000

    Soft story retrofit per sfbc chapter 34b, 2012 iebc appendix a-4. n/a ordinance #155-13.

  12. March 21, 2023

    The Board of Supervisors voted to start the process of making the Carnaval Mural a city landmark.

    SF Planning, landmark designation
  13. September 20, 2023

    The Historic Preservation Commission recommended the Carnaval Mural for landmark designation after a public hearing.

    SF Planning, landmark designation
  14. Nov 2023
    Permit 202311140788 $$$ $8,900

    Reroofing.

  15. Nov 2023
    Permit 202311140797 $$$ $850

    Replacing two pieces 1/2" c-dx plywood at drain area. repair in kind.

  16. January 9, 2024

    Designated San Francisco Landmark No. 313, Carnaval Mural.

    SF Planning, landmark designation
  17. May 2026
    Filed Permit 202605080976 $$$ $15,000

    Rear stairs to be replaced in kind.

2 nominal $1 street-space permits and 1 expired permit are omitted. The building is dated both 1900 and circa 1905. The 1982 commission is credited both to the San Francisco Arts Commission and to the San Francisco Mural Resource Center.

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