| Jackson Square | |||||||||||||||||
| Pushpin Map: | United States San Francisco Central | ||||||||||||||||
| Pushpin Label Position: | left | ||||||||||||||||
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location within Central San Francisco | ||||||||||||||||
| Subdivision Type: | Country | ||||||||||||||||
| Subdivision Name: | United States | ||||||||||||||||
| Subdivision Type1: | State | ||||||||||||||||
| Subdivision Name1: | California | ||||||||||||||||
| Subdivision Type2: | City | ||||||||||||||||
| Subdivision Name2: | San Francisco | ||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates: | 37.7964°N -122.4029°W | ||||||||||||||||
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Jackson Square Historic District is an area in downtown San Francisco, California. It dates back to the city's earliest years and the 1849 gold rush, and is known for its historic commercial buildings in the classical revival and Italianate styles.[1]
The Jackson Square Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in November 18, 1971, with periods of significance spanning from 1850 to 1924.
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 Financial District/Barbary Coast neighborhood.[2] However, according to a 2006 definition by the city mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services, the area forms part of the North Beach neighborhood.[3]
Jackson Square encompasses the northeastern part of the former Barbary Coast red light district. It contains several buildings that survived the 1906 earthquake.[1]
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."[1] 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 His churches down
And spare Hotaling's Whiskey?"[4] [1]