Pacific Heights
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The upscale Pacific Heights neighborhood has many dated Victorian houses and attractive flats. Many of this wealthy neighborhood’s mansions have been converted into apartments. For the most part Pacific Heights is a residential area. In keeping with the elite nature of this neighborhood here you will find several private schools and finishing schools as well as a number of International Consulates |
including Russia, Greece, Egypt, Vietnam and Italy. This pricey neighborhood is located on knolls above San Francisco Bay and the Golden Gate bridge offering magnificent vistas. Residents of Pacific Heights include business executives, public officials, attorneys and the nonworking rich.
Fillmore Street is the main commercial drag of this trendy neighborhood but Union Street also offers many shopping opportunities. In Pacific Heights you will find high end expensive restaurants, warm eateries, bookstores, unique shops, stores selling expensive women's fashions, gift shops, bath-and-body shops, consignment stores, kitchen utensil shops, house furniture stores and era clothing stores.
Pacific Heights is bordered by Filbert Street to the north, Van Ness Avenue to the east, Sacramento Street to the south and Presidio Boulevard to the west.
Pacific Heights homes range in price from $1,500,000 to $20,000,000.
Lafayette Park
This is an unassuming neighborhood that consists mostly of single-family homes that are well designed and beautifully landscaped. Utilities are buried to add a natural ambience to this neighborhood. When the sun shines Lafayette park will fill up with sun worshipers and people giving their dogs a green break. Tennis is played more often here as the courts are protected from the wind. This park is bounded by Washington Street on the north, Gough Street on the east, Sacramento Street on the south and Laguna Street on the west.
Alta Plaza Park
This little park that sits on top of a hill has fabulous views of San Francisco and the Bay. Tennis courts are available here and a playground.
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Cow Hollow
Cow Hollow is a pleasant neighborhood made up of young professionals, and old-fashioned Edwardian and Victorian styled homes. There is some newer construction here reflecting more contemporary design features. The Cow Hollow area was at one time covered with natural springs, sand dunes and a small lagoon and was the principle dairy producing area of San Francisco. When the pressure of expansion grew the cows were exiled, the springs and lagoon was filled in and the Cow Hollow housing boom began. Cow Hollow is now an upper-class area that has given the word fashionable a new meaning.
Homes in the Cow Hollow neighborhood run from $650,000 to $3,300,000.
A number of old houses and mansions still exist here and have historic importance. This homes include:
The Haas-Lilienthal House
2007 Franklin Street
This house was constructed completely of redwood and represents Queen Anne design. This house was built in 1886 and is now open regularly as a museum.
Spreckels Mansion
2080 Washington Street
The opulent Spreckels Mansion was constructed in 1913 of white limestone, has 55 rooms that includes a Louis XVI ballroom.
Bourn Mansion
2550 Webster Street
This four story Victorian style mansion has 30 rooms and three Queen Anne towers. The house was constructed with wood, brick and red sandstone.
The Octagon House
2645 Gough Street
This mansion was constructed in 1861. The pale blue octagon building was built based on the theory that a house of this shape would offer inhabitants healthier, happier lives. This house is now a museum where you can see houses Revolutionary War playing cards (no Kings, Queens or Jacks), original signatures from 54 of the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence, and antique furniture from the 18th and 19th centuries.
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