The area is a residential enclave comprising 20 historical residences, a walkway, and a small park.

[3] The Bush Street–Cottage Row District is an intact, century-old enclave within San Francisco's mostly bulldozed Western Addition Redevelopment (area 2) by the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency.

[3] In the 1870s TREA built over 1,000 houses, usually in developments similar to this one in San Francisco's Mission District, Western Addition and Pacific Heights, It catered to the working class, appealing to a mass market with easy credit and plentiful advertising.

[3] In September 1874, the TREA company had bought the whole block west of what is now Cottage Row for $25,250 and, following their usual practice, had subdivided the land into 23 lots.

[7] This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the National Park Service.