Tour Mansions in Pacific Heights then-SF Symphony, Dvořák 7
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This is a special tour today as we do both "Billionaires Row", and "Millionaires Row", in Pacific Heights. End time shown is for the walking tour.
After the tour, it's over to Davies Symphony Hall for Orozco-Estrada Conducting, Dvorak 7. Solo pianist Jan Lisiecki is a world-renowned Canadian pianist known for his interpretations of Mozart; here he performs the composer's expressive and ambitious ninth concerto. We can have lunch before the concert at the Max's Opera Cafe, or the Tuning Fork Cafe at Symphony Hall. Myself and two others have seats around E15, in the Orchestra level. (Private guides charge, $150., for hotel pick-up and a tour of Pacific Hts. Maybe some perspective regarding the symphony ticket cost?)
There is plenty of available free parking around the neighborhood and no restriction on weekends/holidays.
After the tour go to the Symphony with us and have lunch there.
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(To cancel your RSVP look for the, "Edit Attendance" tab at the bottom right hand corner of a notebook screen, left bottom for a phone.)
If time allows, about midway through the tour we'll stop for a break atop Lafayette Park. The strange 19th century tale of Samuel Holladay and how he got away with building his mansion on the highest point in Pacific Hts., even though his residential real estate "empire", was atop and within Lafayette Park. This is a true tale and will be told with some of the old photos.
There are restrooms at the Park and views and we'll describe the surrounding heritage Victorian houses, making our way back through some of the best examples of remaining Victorians in SF.
Pacific Heights is best known for being one of the most affluent neighborhoods in San Francisco. This tour highlights the architecture, and some of the people who built, occupied and maintained these grand properties. About 30 of which will be on our tour with some information about each property.
The walking tour is 3 miles. With the usual SF hills.
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We'll pass by some Victorians. If you want to know more read-on!
Looking at a San Francisco Victorian, what to look for:
(There are five Styles)
- Flat front Italianate- (earliest Victorians).
- Italianate with slanted bay windows.
- San Francisco Stick Style (also called East Lake). Simpler square bay windows now used. Overall more elaborate decoration.
- Queen Anne Tower House&Witches Cap, with angled or rounded bay windows & front gable
- Queen Anne Row House"Cottage", 1, 1-1/2 or two stories. Large front gable. Possible moon-gate entry.
- Features & "Gingerbread"
- Floral Decor-Garlands (one of many types of decorations known as *"Gingerbread")
- Fish scale&Diamond shingles-
- Towers & Witch's Cap-
- Stained Glass or Beveled Glass-
- Carvings of grotesque faces-
- Sunbursts- often painted gold color, half or full.
- Gables (Queen Anne's) in a variety of material- (mainly redwood)
- Newel Posts and Finials on Tower tops and roof peaks-
We'll see clusters of Victorian homes systematically built for the average working person by a development company, "The Real Estate Assoc." THEA, in business from 1870 to 1880. Not quite magnificent but many still standing.
Periods
1860 - 1870s Italianate: Buildings were vertical in emphasis with rounded classical detail. Earliest had flat windows, with false roof fronts.
1880s Stick Style (also called East Lake): Squared off bay windows appear.
Late 1880s and 1890s Queen Anne : Gingerbread would be applied to both the Stick and Queen Ann styles in San Francisco. Sloping roofs appear. With gables and towers.
Rooflines in the Queen Anne were irregular, combining the witches hat rooftop on a rounded or octagonal tower.
Following the Victorians the next major architectural style were the Period Revival residences popular in the 1920s and 1930s.
If you would like a scholarly and detailed explanation with photos, click.