San Francisco Relocation Guide - Antevia

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Visitacion Valley Community Development Centre
Western Addition, San Francisco,
California
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A southern view from Alta Plaza Park, which is in the Pacific Heights neighborhood.
Most of the valley in the central part of this image is in the Western Addition
neighborhood. In the background on the right can be seen Sutro Tower, which is west of
Twin Peaks. The darker hill to the left and slightly more in the foreground is Buena Vista
Heights, which is directly south of Haight Street (between the Haight-Fillmore and
Haight-Ashbury neighborhoods). Cathedral Hill is visible to the left, just west of Van
Ness Avenue and north of Hayes Valley.
The Western Addition is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California. Historically, it
was an addition to the city west of Van Ness Avenue sandwiched between the Haight
district and Pacific Heights. The area was first developed around the turn of the 20th
century as a middle-class suburb served by cable cars. Aside from Hayes Valley, it
survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake with its Victorian-style buildings largely
intact. Today, the term Western Addition is generally used in two ways: to denote the
development's original geographic area, and to denote the eastern portion of the
neighborhood (also called the Fillmore District) that was redeveloped in the 1950's.
Those who use the term in the former sense generally consider its (relatively ill-defined)
boundaries to be Van Ness Avenue on the east, Masonic Avenue on the west, Post Street
on the north, and Oak Street on the south. From there, it is often divided into smaller