Vanished San Francisco

San Francisco Historical Society and Museum 608 Commercial Street, San Francisco, CA, United States
Lorri Ungaretti will lead a visual journey of more than 50 places and items that were once found in San Francisco but are gone now.

The Van Ness Temples of Culture
Celebrate 90 Years

San Francisco Historical Society and Museum 608 Commercial Street, San Francisco, CA, United States
Building a municipal opera house was the goal of many San Francisco leaders. It took twenty years, was proposed at several locations, had funding problems, morphed into a War Memorial and a Veterans Building.

San Francisco and the Civil War

San Francisco Historical Society and Museum 608 Commercial Street, San Francisco, CA, United States
Californians have little idea of what role the state played in the Civil War, and the importance of San Francisco during that time.

Unspeakable Vice: Queer North Beach Before the Castro

San Francisco Historical Society and Museum 608 Commercial Street, San Francisco, CA, United States
Join us for a lecture on San Francisco’s original “gayborhood,” North Beach. Before the Castro, Pride, or the Rainbow Flag, the beginnings of modern queer identity and activism was formed in the old Barbary Coast.