Jordan Park
Jordan Park's boundaries include Geary Boulevard, California Street and Parker Avenue. It is adjacent to Childern's hospital and home to many doctors. The area has handsome stately homes that are well designed and nicely landscaped.

Lake Street
The Lake Street area borders the Presidio, Arguello Boulevard and Sea Cliff. Mostly renovated Edwardian homes and apartments line the streets of this quiet neighborhood where paking is easily accessible

Richmond Area
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An ethnically mixed area, where immigrant Russians and East European Jews settled in the late teens and twenties. Businesses, restaurants, bookstores and the Russian Cathedral on Geary still testify to their presence. The largest ethnic group is the Chinese, who, overflowing from Chinatown, found it easier to acquire property here than in the inner-city areas. The commercial strips along Geary and Clement are the new Chinatown. The residential boom in this area began in 1912 with the opening of the Municipal Railway line on Geary Boulevard, providing good transportation to downtown. The next boom followed World War II and succeeded in filling all of the blocks to the ocean.

Laurel Heights
Developed mostly in the 1930's, this area is prosperous with neat houses and a great little shopping area. Like Anza Vista, this area used to be a graveyard until the 1930's when Laurel Hill, as it used to be known, began to develop. (The caskets were removed).

Sea Cliff
Sea Cliff attracts many sightseers wanting to see the beautiful mansions and beaches in this area. China and Baker beaches are situated where the Golden Gate meets the Pacific Ocean. Sea Cliff's residences are located just above sea level and offer beautiful views of the ocean.

Golden Gate Park
In 1871 William Hammond Hall, an ex-army engineer, was appointed as the parks first superintendent. Within 5 years, he designed the park, figured out how to anchor the sand dunes by planting imported sand grass and how to make the trees grow, and he had begun at the east end to landscape the barren waste. Uncle John McLaren later took over the work. The park that Hall designed and McLaren built is one of the great monuments of romantic landscape design. The park is perennially green, since most of the vegetation is not deciduous and there are beautiful gardens throughout. Also, the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum and the California Academy of Sciences occupy the park. The 'de Young' is currently being re-designed by noted architects Herzog and de Meuron.

Lincoln Manor
A select corner of the outer Richmond, with old and gracious houses. Also known as Shoreview Terrace.

Lone Mountain
Close to the University of San Francisco and the Golden Gate Park, this handsome and neat neighborhood offers older and newer homes, with well maintained gardens and surrounded by greenery. There is also the newer USF sports center.

Rossi Park
A flat area, names for its adjoining playground. The houses are well maintained and quiet.

Sutro Heights
Adolph Sutro acquired his estate in 1879. He passed away in 1898. The park named after him, offers fantastic views of the Ocean and is well landscaped. Surrounded by pretty houses in the outer Richmond area.

West Clay Park
A prestigious neighborhood, with two-story, square shaped houses of good size, pleasantly isolated by the Presidio and close to Lake Street.

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