Autumn Glory

Too busy too write much. A couple 

of October sunsets will have to be my contribution to the blogosphere for now. 

We are so blessed to live here.

Yo prosperous artists! and artistic history buff lookie loos!

I have walked down Francisco in North Beach and wondered so many times what was behind the orange door... so when it was open on Zephyr tour this week I was so happy to look inside- and find high ceiling-ed side by side art studios, with a little yard that opens onto the cute alley behind.

        

So I must diverge from the earth based real estate and rave a little about this place, alas not my listing, go Stephano) which was "built by Henry Temple Howard for renowned local artists Adaline Kent and Robert Boardman Howard. The studios remained the creative hub for their painting, sculpture, family and community for over four decades."  

         

"The fireplace chimney reliefs are the actual plaster models for the large bronze fireplace-in-the round made by Howard, originally for the Badger Pass Lodge, and now located at Yosemite Lodge". He also painted the mural in the mural room.

                                                                    

Such a high bright wonderful space, a large scale sculptor or painters dream. It's open 2-4 Sunday, Sept 29, if you want to see a special piece of SF history while you can, it should be a gorgeous weekend in North Beach.

Oh, and if you are even more prosperous, here's another amazing space for art...

San Francisco Property History and What Is This "3R Report"?

SF Building Dept

The "3R Report" is the Report of Residential Building Record, (get it? 3 R's). Sellers are required to include this report in a residential sale, unless the building is brand spanking new.

Metapicture.com

Here and here are some comments on the 3R and what it means to home buyers and sellers. Here is the San Francisco Property Information Map, which is super cool and useful for your property history research, and here is a place to search for permit and complaint information related to a particular address. The San Francisco Public Library also has helpful resources, and occasionally they hold workshops on researching buildings.

RichmondSFBlog

Isn't modern life wonderful?  Marin is less centralized, I'll save that for another post.

"Moving to San Francisco? This Map Will Tell You Where to Live"

Retiring Guy Aerial SF

I'm not sure how I missed this awesome post from Far Out City, it almost makes this whole blog obsolete. It is really worth a look. I'm a little stunned at how helpful a collection of information it is.

Stanford Digital Humanities

If you like that San Francisco map thing, this post from Stanford University Libraries is really cool too.

National Park Service

Smart creative people are mapping San Francisco in newly possible ways, and the old maps are so quickly available now in a Google image search. This guy is integrating old and new maps. The San Francisco Planning Department has a Map Library.  There are seemingly unlimited options for interesting SF mappish-ness. Fun!

Foggy Foggy Foggy

SF Gate- Solar panels and fog

It's that time of year in San Francisco again, and even though I've lived in and out of the fog all my life, and blogged about it ad nauseum, it is still a shock and a clothing challenge every time I go from summer to winter, or winter to summer, in the same day.

SFGate

At a recent open house there was much discussion of where the fog line is. One man who'd lived on Schrader for years thought that was the line, others Masonic, and still others lobbied for Divisadero. As the marine layer expands and contracts the line moves, so it is hard to make accurate generalizations.

For you house hunters, here's one attempt at mapping the fog lines:

EnergySavvy

I'm also partial to this "super scientific" one from HeyNeighborhood:

Adrift, the magical fog video that went viral a few weeks ago is lovely if you haven't seen it.

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