The Russian Hill–Macondray Lane District is a

historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains historic building, older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal p ...

Russian Hill Russian Hill is a neighborhood of San Francisco, California. It is named after one of San Francisco's 44 hills, and one of its original "Seven Hills". Location Russian Hill is directly to the north (and slightly downhill) from Nob Hill, to t ...

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, that was listed on the

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on January 7, 1988, for the architecture.

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The area is roughly bound by 900–982 Green Street, 1918–1960 Jones Street, 15–84 Macondray Lane, and 1801–1809 Taylor Street, in San Francisco, California. The listing included 12

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and one contributing site, Macondray Lane. and Only four of the houses in this historic district had survived the

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and fire. The oldest surviving house in the district is 982 Green Street, built in 1878. Most of the early residents had middle class careers, with the exception of three homes on Green Street at the top of the hill. The district had residents working in the arts, as well as

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, some of which originated from

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. Notable former residents of this neighborhood include

Giuseppe Cadenasso Giuseppe Leone Cadenasso (1854/8February 11, 1918) was an Italian-born American Oil painting, oil painter who lived in San Francisco, California, where he was a member of the Bohemian Club. Biography Giuseppe Leone Cadenasso was born near Gen ...

, Ina Coolbrith, Charles Caldwell Dobie, Anita Whitney, A. G. McAdie, Charles S. Ross, Curtis Redfern, Charles Bovone, Edward Rowland, Batista DeVincenzi, Edward Huber Jr., Eleanor Ross, and W. H. B. Fowler. Other historic districts in Russian Hill include the Russian Hill-Vallejo Street Crest District and the Russian Hill-Paris Block Architectural District.

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