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Sunset District, San Francisco, California
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The Outer Sunset from Grand View Park
The Sunset District (election district 4) is a neighborhood in the west-central part of San
Francisco, California, USA that is primarily residential and is built along a grid pattern. It
was one of the last areas of San Francisco to be developed, and most of its homes and
buildings date from the 1920s through the 1950s, with the fastest rate of construction
occurring during the 1930s and 1940s (although parts of the Inner Sunset were developed
beginning in the 1890s).
Geography
Golden Gate Park forms the neighborhood's northern border and the Pacific Ocean (or,
more specifically, the long, flat strand of beach known as Ocean Beach) forms its western
border. The Sunset District's southern and eastern borders are not as clearly defined, but
there is a general consensus that the neighborhood extends no further than Sigmund Stern
Grove and Sloat Boulevard in the south and no further east than the Parnassus campus of
the University of California, San Francisco and Laguna Honda Hospital. Prior to the
residential and commercial development of the Sunset District, the area was covered by
sand dunes and was originally referred to by 19th-century San Franciscans as "the
Outside Lands."