The San Francisco Preservation Society

Sunday, September 28, 2025

Simple (Store in Cole Valley): 915 Cole Street (X Carl) - a neighborhood eco market that offers a full range of zero-waste items, including a large selection of refillable products for the home and body. They focus on local goods and local makers. They support a closed loop economic model. They want to make it convenient to choose sustainable and refillable products = Save the Earth!

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News: Swimming against the tide of anti-immigrant sentiment - The SF Dream Team swims from Alcatraz to raise money for scholarships for undocumented SFSU students

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The 1922 Spanish baroque theater has undergone extensive upgrades. The landmark movie palace will reopen in February 2026, after $41 million in renovations.

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Sunday, September 14, 2025

25th X Indiana Streets, San Francisco

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Amador Street, San Francisco

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Cityside Park, Treasure Island Opening Celebration - September 13, 2025

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Sunday, July 20, 2025

Salvador Lopez, founder of Taqueria El Farolito was born in 1950 in Mexico. In 1975, Lopez moved to Half Moon Bay. He would eventually open Taqueria San Jose on Mission and 24th streets with two other men. He sold his share in Taqueria San Jose and then established El Farolito at 2779 Mission Street in the early 1980s.

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Sunday, June 1, 2025

Video / News / SF Natural History: The Bird Woman of Alcatraz - Meet Lidia D’Amico, a National Park Service ranger who takes an incredible joy in her job, monitoring the tens of thousands of birds that nest on Alcatraz Island, especially a pair of once-endangered Peregrine Falcons and their fledgling chicks (Northern California Public Media)

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Sunday, May 25, 2025

(From TV's CBS Sunday Morning, today) - Barbara Shermund (June 26, 1899 – September 9, 1978) was born in San Francisco. Her talent emerged very early in her life. Her first artwork was published when she was nine years old on the San Francisco Chronicle's children's page under the title 'On the farm'. In 1911, she published a short story for a writing contest in The San Francisco Call. She moved to New York in 1925 after her mother's death from Spanish flu. Shermund began her career in New York by creating spot illustrations. She created covers, illustrations and cartoons for Esquire, Life and Collier's. In February 1925, Harold Ross launched The New Yorker as a humorous Manhattan-centric magazine. Shermund was one of the first women cartoonists to work for The New Yorker after its launch. Over 600 of her cartoons were published in The New Yorker. She contributed nine cover illustrations for the magazine.

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Saturday, May 24, 2025

San Francisco's Wave Organ

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Thursday, May 15, 2025

News: Newly Discovered Vintage (1960s & 70s) Photographs of Happenings in San Francisco by an Unknown Photographer (TV's CBS Saturday Morning)

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Saturday, March 29, 2025

Civic Center Plaza - Now Offering Outdoor Games - Courtesy of San Francisco Rec & Park

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Sunday, July 28, 2024

PBS Series - Moving San Francisco - Episode 1 - stories connect the city’s transit past to future challenges

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Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Golden Gate Bridge & Northern Lights - Pic 1 of 2 - by Hugh Lagneste

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Golden Gate Bridge & Northern Lights - Pic 2 of 2 - by Hugh Lagneste

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Celebrate, Protect, Preserve

Celebrate, Protect, Preserve
The San Francisco Preservation Society is an organization that was founded in 2003. We are dedicated to celebrating, protecting and preserving features unique to San Francisco through advocacy.
The San Francisco Preservation Society Google Group is a place to share information, news and events. You can visit the site and/or join.

SF Supervisors Information

Go to sfbos.org for information about the San Francisco Board of Supervisors including proposed legislation, meeting times, agendas, minutes, etc.
The SF Planning Department's Historic Preservation Commission is responsible for identifying and designating the San Francisco's landmarks and the buildings in the City's historic districts. It consists of seven Commissioners and a Commission Secretary. They need to hear from you!

Christopher VerPlanck

VerPlanck Historic Preservation Consulting - 530 Rockdale Dr, San Francisco, California 94127. 415.606.0920 - Chris@VerPlanckConsulting.com
Contact the SF Board of Supervisors to voice your concerns about a preservation issue.

Keep Our City Government Honest

Petition for Records as per SF's Sunshine Ordinance.

Get help preserving your property via the Mills Act.

Juristiction and Procedures of SF Landmarks Advisory Board

Read about preservation incentives.

Potential Landmark Designation Form

Landmark and Historic District Designation Procedures

The National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 defines an historic resource or historic property as: “any prehistoric or historic district, site, building, structure, or object included in, or eligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places; such term includes artifacts, records, and remains which are related to such a district, site, building, structure, or object.”

You can get involved by doing a Historic Resource Survey


The California State Historical

Resources Commission is a nine-

member state review board,

appointed by the Governor, with

responsibilities for the identification,

registration, and preservation of

California's cultural heritage.


The National Register of Historic Places

is the Nation's official list of cultural

resources worthy of preservation.

Authorized under the National Historic

Preservation Act of 1966, the National

Register is part of a national program

to coordinate and support public and

private efforts to identify, evaluate, and

protect our historic and archeological

resources. Properties listed in the Register

include districts, sites, buildings, structures,

and objects that are significant in American

history, architecture, archeology,

engineering, and culture. The National

Register is administered by the National

ParkService, which is part of the U.S.

Department of the Interior.


The California Preservation Foundation

believes that communities can continue to

grow without losing sight of their past. They

engage in assistance with preservation

issues.


Architectural Resources Group

is headquartered in San Francisco. "Artistic

features and historic details provide beauty.”


San Francisco Heritage has a mission to

preserve and enhance San Francisco’s

unique architectural and cultural identity.


Outside Lands Western Neighborhoods

Project is an all-volunteer nonprofit group that

gathers historical information about San

Francisco's outer neighborhoods by

collecting photos.


Open SF History is where to go to search among

thousands of WPN’s photographs.


Art Deco Society of California


The Center for Home Movies



Search for City / County Documents

http://citidex.sfgov.org/sunindex/

If you think something in San Francisco should be recognized nationally, contact

The National Trust for Historic Preservation

Advisory Counsel on Historic Preservation

If you think something should be recognized by the state of California, contact the OHP.

The mission of the Office of Historic Preservation (OHP) and the State Historical Resources Commission (SHRC) is to provide leadership and promote the preservation of California's irreplaceable and diverse cultural heritage.

Simple

Simple
An Eco Store in Cole Valley

San Francisco Beekeepers Association

San Francisco Beekeepers Association
San Francisco Organizations - listed by the SF History Association
Article 10: Preservation of Historical and Aesthetic Landmarks
Eviction Free San Francisco is an organization dedicated to putting an end to unjust evictions.

SF Community Land Trust is a membership based organization whose mission is to preserve and create permanently affordable, resident-controlled housing for low- to moderate-income people in San Francisco through community ownership of the land. We do this by acquiring apartment buildings in which long-time tenants are at risk of eviction and convert them into resident-owned cooperatives.

SF Environment

SF Environment
The Goal = Zero Waste!
SF City Docs

Historic Preservation FAQs


Videos

Amateur Film of SF from 1940s - 13 min

Market Street Just Before the Earthquake - 12 min

Ray Bandar and his Bone Palace - 17 min

Some Birds of GG Park - 4 min

SF Gold Rush (2 hr documentary)

Golden Gate Bridge Zipper

Guardian of the GG Bridge

2009 Chinese New Year Parade

9-Minute Video on the Gold Rush

3-Minute Video on the Gold Rush

SF in the Movies - 6 min

Fong Fong Bakery - 5.5 min

1930s Doc GG Bridge - 26 min

Deer on GG Bridge - 15 sec

Beach Art of Andres Amador - 1 min, 20 sec

1930 Documentary on SF - 10 min

1963 Documentary on SF - 21 min

Craig & Meredith perform 'Just the Same'

Dia de los Muertos 2012


Blog Slideshows

Egg War on the Farallon Islands during the Gold Rush

Heart on the Beach (2017)

Goat Graze along Laguna Honda

Fred Lyon - SF Photographer

Sea Lions of Pier 39

Musee Mechanique 2016

Art Deco in San Francisco

Victorian Homes Documentation Project

Historic Buildings near Jefferson Square Park

Historic Market Street Buildings

Historic Downtown Buildings

Exploratorium 2015

Vintage Signs in SF

SF Zoo - Then and Now

Fleishhacker Pool

GG Park in the Early Days

Dia de los Muertos 2013

SF's Aquatic Park

Alcatraz Sunrise Ceremony


Visitors Since Nov 21, 2012

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Founding Members Andrea & David

Founding Members Andrea & David

Founding Members Lesley & Carol

Founding Members Lesley & Carol

Founding Member Darryl

Founding Member Darryl

Founding Members Barbara & JD

Founding Members Barbara & JD

Founding Member Barbara

Founding Member Barbara

Contributing Member Aaron

Contributing Member Aaron

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Getty Images = PicScout = Science Photo Library.

"Getty Images willfully violated the Copyright Act." This ruling was made by U.S. District Judge Alison Nathan in January of 2013.
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