![Anza Vista](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/Anza_Vista.jpg)
Anza Vista is a
neighborhood
A neighbourhood (British English, Irish English, Australian English and Canadian English) or neighborhood (American English; see spelling differences) is a geographically localised community within a larger city, town, suburb or rural area, ...
in the
Western Addition district of
San Francisco
San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the List of Ca ...
,
California
California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the List of states and territori ...
. It is named after
Juan Bautista de Anza
Juan Bautista de Anza Bezerra Nieto (July 6 or 7, 1736 – December 19, 1788) was an expeditionary leader, military officer, and politician primarily in California and New Mexico under the Spanish Empire. He is credited as one of the founding fa ...
, the first Spanish explorer to reach San Francisco.
History
![Portrait of Juan Bautista de Anza (Painted by Fray Orci; 1774, Mexico City)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Portrait_of_Juan_Bautista_de_Anza_%28Painted_by_Fray_Orci%3B_1774%2C_Mexico_City%29.jpg)
It sits atop the former location of the San Francisco Calvary Cemetery. Graves in this cemetery, along with all graves in San Francisco, were moved in the 1930s and 1940s to
Colma after burials in San Francisco were banned in 1902 at all but two cemeteries to increase available real estate.
Geography
Anza Vista is located between
Geary Boulevard
Geary Boulevard (designated as Geary Street east of Van Ness Avenue) is a major east–west thoroughfare in San Francisco, California, United States, beginning downtown at Market Street near Market Street's intersection with Kearny Street, and ...
to the north, Turk Street to the south, Masonic Avenue to the west and
Divisadero Street
This is a list of streets in San Francisco, California. They are grouped by type: arterial thoroughfares, commercial corridors, and other streets.
Arterial thoroughfares
* 19th Avenue that bisects the western part of the city, extending from I ...
to the east. Some of the surrounding areas between
The Presidio
''The Presidio'' is a 1988 American crime film directed by Peter Hyams and starring Sean Connery and Mark Harmon. Hyams also handled the cinematography and the score was composed by Bruce Broughton.
Plot
At the Presidio Army base in San Fran ...
,
Golden Gate Park
Golden Gate Park, located in San Francisco, California, United States, is a large urban park consisting of of public grounds. It is administered by the San Francisco Recreation & Parks Department, which began in 1871 to oversee the development ...
, the
Panhandle
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While similar to a peninsula in shape, a salient is most often not surrounded by water on ...
, and the
Western Addition
The Western Addition is a district in San Francisco, California, United States.
Location
The Western Addition is located between Van Ness Avenue, the Richmond District, the Haight-Ashbury and Lower Haight neighborhoods, and Pacific Heights.
...
may sometimes be referred to as part of the Anza Vista neighborhood.
Economy
A Target anchored shopping center, The City Center, is located on Geary Boulevard and Masonic Avenue in the north-western corner of the neighborhood.
Anza Vista is also the location of a
Kaiser Permanente
Kaiser Permanente (; KP), commonly known simply as Kaiser, is an American integrated managed care consortium, based in Oakland, California, United States, founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney Garfield. Kaiser P ...
hospital on Geary Boulevard at St. Joseph's Avenue, and the
Raoul Wallenberg Traditional High School
Raoul Wallenberg Traditional High School is a high school in San Francisco, California, USA. It was founded in 1981 in honor of the Swedish architect, businessman, diplomat, and humanitarian Raoul Wallenberg. In recognition of its namesake, the sc ...
on Nido Avenue.
References
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Neighborhoods in San Francisco
Western Addition, San Francisco