Jackson Square Historic District is an area in downtown

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in November 18, 1971, with periods of significance spanning from 1850 to 1924.

Definition

Jackson Square Historic District is bounded approximately by Broadway on the north, Washington Street on the south, Columbus Ave. on the west and Sansome Street on the east. Jackson Street runs through it. According to the 2010 neighborhoods map of the San Francisco Association of Realtors (SFAR), Jackson Square Historic District lies within the

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neighborhood. However, according to a 2006 definition by the city mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services, the area forms part of the North Beach neighborhood.

History

Jackson Square encompasses the northeastern part of the former

red light district. It contains several buildings that survived the 1906 earthquake. Hotaling Place, a one-block lane near the end of Columbus Avenue that used to lie on the city's shoreline, has been called, "San Francisco's oldest alley." It is named after businessman Anson Parsons Hotaling, who maintained a warehouse on the lane for his whiskey, which may have helped saving the building in the 1906 earthquake and fire, as commemorated in a poem by Charles K. Field that today is displayed on a plaque there: :"If, as they say, God spanked the town, :For being over-frisky, :Why did He burn

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Notable buildings and historical locations

* Colombo Building, 1-21 Columbus Avenue * Fugazi Bank Building, 4 Columbus Avenue * Grogan-Lent-Atherton Building, 400 Jackson Street * Ghirardelli Building, 407 Jackson Street * Hotaling Building, 451 Jackson Street * Hotaling Annex East, 445 Jackson Street * Hotaling Annex West, 463–473 Jackson Street * California Masonic Lodge No. 1, 728 Montgomery Street * Golden Era Building, 732–734 Montgomery Street * First Jewish religious services in San Francisco, 735 Montgomery Street * Bank of Lucas, Turner & Co., NE corner of Montgomery and Jackson

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{{Neighborhoods of San Francisco Neighborhoods in San Francisco Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in California National Register of Historic Places in San Francisco San Francisco Designated Landmarks