Willie McCovey Statue on McCovey Cove
19 June 2003
|
|
| |
|
This section of our website explores San Francisco through historic points of interest that are listed on the National Register of Historic
Places or that are designated as landmarks by the State of California or the City and County of San Francisco or that simply strike our fancy.
|
| |
| National Register Listings |
The National Register of Historic Places was authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966
to encourage the preservation of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects significant in the history, architecture,
archeology, engineering and culture of the United States of America.
Our sources for National Register sites are:
|
| |
| State Historical Landmarks |
California Historical Landmarks are buildings, structures, sites, or places that have been determined to have statewide historical significance.
State landmarks are recommended by the State Historical Resources Commission, approved by the appropriate County Board of Supervisors,
and officially designated by the Director of California State Parks. Most California Historical Landmarks have commemorative plaques.
Our source for California landmarks is the California Office of Historic Preservation.
|
| |
| Local Landmarks |
The San Francisco Landmarks Preservation Advisory Board was established in 1967. Its nine members are appointed
by the Mayor of San Francisco. Nominated properties are subject to public hearings and must be approved by the Landmarks Board,
the Planning Commission and the Board of Supervisors before being designated as San Francisco Landmarks.
Our sources for locally designated landmarks are:
|
| |
| The Fabulous Cockettes |
It was the fall of 1970. Rex Reed and Truman Capote were missed at the Beverly Sills opening night post-opera ball.
They, along with Mrs. Johnny Carson and Mrs. Sam Spiegel, were squeezing their way through the sold-out crowd at a
Chinese movie house in San Francisco, where a group of flamboyant, radical hippies called The Cockettes had donned
their wigs, makeup and petticoats for a midnight revue....
|
| |
|
|