It is a residential neighborhood bound by 20th, Mission, Dolores, and 22nd Streets.

It is listed as a San Francisco Designated Landmark since October 25, 1985.

[5][6] The southern boundary is the Yerba Buena Spanish settlement charter line of 1834.

[9][10][11] A number of homes in the district were designed by prominent architects, including the Newsom Brothers (Samuel Newsom and Joseph Cather Newsom), Albert Pissis, Charles Shaner, William H. Toepke, Charles Havens, and Charles J.

[1] People associated with the district include Mark Zuckerberg,[12][13] John Donald Daly, James Rolph, Jr., Susan B. Anthony, and Lotta Crabtree.