San Francisco Heritage

05/26/2026

We are multi-talented here at SF Heritage! Here is a tidbit about Balboa Terrace, the location of legacy business and landmark .

The Gregangelo Museum is the magical location of our next Heritage Happy Hour! Save the date and join us for this free gathering:

🗓 Thursday, June 11, 5-7 pm | 225 San Leandro Way, SF

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Fun facts with Woody from about the Gregangelo Museum ✨ so fun getting to share some of the stories, art, and magic inside this one of a kind San Francisco space 🌙🎭

05/22/2026

👀Sneak peek at part of the cool new screen-printed posters for the next Page Memorial Lecture Series event, which also happens to be SF Heritage's gala!

Your $50 ticket gets you a seat to the show at the beautifully-restored Presidio Theatre (99 Moraga Avenue) on June 4 and a one-of-kind poster to take home. The program will feature Rob Thomson, Federal Preservation Officer of the Presidio Trust, detailing some of the excellent historic preservation and restoration projects in the Presidio to date (think old post hospital, Battery Bluff park, officers club, etc).

🎟 Buy a ticket and support SF Heritage at our biggest fundraiser of the year (there isn't a bad seat in the house!): https://bit.ly/4fa7xJM

🗓Thursday, June 4 @ 7:30 pm

👏🏼Thanks to for the design and for the haul!

05/21/2026

A gift package from German spot and legacy business Suppenküche (celebrating 33 years!), a loyalty card for the historic Balboa Theater and Vogue Theatres (the former celebrating 100 years!), a visit to the SF Heritage archives, a San Francisco cocktails class at Elixir, and tour of the Old Mint are all items you can bid on NOW in SF Heritage's gala silent auction.

Bids close on Sunday, June 7 at 8 pm PT, all proceeds support our preservation mission: https://bit.ly/43gFhOs

05/20/2026

The Presidio of San Francisco’s old post army hospital dates back to 1864 with additions and renovations in 1878, 1889, and 1897, when a two-story octagonal el was constructed on its north side as a laboratory.

The Presidio Trust's Federal Preservation Officer, Rob Thomson, will share its history, details of recent preservation work, and the future of the old post hospital as part of our Post to Park gala at the Presidio Theatre on Thursday, June 4, 2026.

🎟️ Grab your seat to join us! https://bit.ly/4fa7xJM

05/11/2026

More on the 140th anniversary of Yick Wo vs. Hopkins and our efforts to commemorate the site of Yick Wo laundry in today's South of Market.

San Francisco is ready to officially remember a piece of history: the Chinese immigrant laundrymen who fought all the way to the Supreme Court and won, establishing equal protection rights for all Americans in 1886.

05/10/2026

ON THIS DAY: In a unanimous ruling on May 10, 1886, the Supreme Court of the United States held that a law applied in a racially discriminatory way violated the constitutional guarantee of equal protection to “all persons”—citizen or not. This decision, in the case Yick Wo v. Hopkins, remains foundational to American civil rights law and has been cited in hundreds of cases.

An open-air parking lot in San Francisco's South of Market, has no plaque or sign denoting its relationship to this significant case:

A South of Market laundry that changed the course of civil rights in America, and join us in the restored Presidio Theatre for our June gala