The Victorian Alliance of San Francisco

Monthly Meeting Highlights

June 24, 2009Program: David Boysel, regarding fresco restoration
Location: 1925 stucco chapel by Bakewell & Brown at Buena Vista Park
May 27, 2009Location: 1921 shingle-style organization building by Julia Morgan on Deharo Street
April 29, 2009Location: San Francisco Landmark #181 in Golden Gate Park
March 25, 2009Location: San Francisco’s first skyscraper, 1925 neo-gothic art deco tower by Miller and Pflueger on New Montgomery Street.
February 25, 2009Location: 1888 Stick style house by Peter Schmidt & Frank Shea at Alamo Square
January 28, 2009Location: 1891 Queen Anne mansion by Charles I. Havens on Steiner near Alamo Square
December 14, 2008Annual Holiday Party - Location: 1886 Italianate by Henry Geilfuss on Grove Street near Fillmore
October 29, 2008Location: 1904 Chateau-style mansion by Frank Shea at Alamo Square
September 24, 2008Location: 1884 Eastlake/Classical Revival by Edward Hatherton in Hayes Valley
August 27, 2008Speaker: Lorna Kollmeyer, Ornamental Plaster Studio
Location: Artist's studio, San Francisco
July 30, 2008Speaker: Mark A.Wilson, a slide lecture "Julia Morgan's Unique Place in American Architecture"
Location: 1928 organizational building by Julia Morgan near Panhandle
June 25, 2008Location: 1889 landmarked stone church by Percy & Hamilton on Franklin
May 21, 2008Speaker: Rick Pisano about bottle-digging
Location: 1870's Italianate apartments in Mission District, once featured in "Painted Ladies Revisited"
April 30, 2008Speaker: Dave Weinstein, author of "Signature Architects of the Bay Area", with slide lecture about Bay Area's Victorian architects
Location: 1910 Second Empire brick townhouse on Powell Street, by Conrad Meussdorffer
March 26, 2008Location: 1850 commercial building in Jackson Square Historic District
February 20, 2008Speaker: William Kostura, architectural historian & author, a slide lecture about architect Henry Geilfuss
Location: 1885 Stick-Eastlake residence in Hayes Valley by Henry Geilfuss, a San Francisco landmark
January 23, 2008Location: 1882 Victorian residence in Hayes Valley by John Marquis, a San Francisco landmark
December 16, 2007Annual Holiday Party
Location: 1886 Italianate by Henry Geilfuss on Grove Street near Fillmore
October 31, 2007Bob Bowen about San Francisco Presidio
Location: 1864 Gothic Revival building, San Francisco Presidio
September 26, 2007Feature: Arthur Bloomfield and Kit Haskell signing copies of "Gables & Fables".
Location: 1866 Italianate villa in Cow Hollow
August 29, 2007Speaker: B. J. Droubi
Location: 1888 Queen Anne in Noe Valley
July 25, 2007Speaker: William Kostura, architectural historian & author, with a slide-lecture about architect Clinton Day
Location: 1899 Neo-classic mansion by Clinton Day in Pacific Heights
June 27, 2007Speaker: Mark A. Wilson, author of "Julia Morgan: Architect of Beauty"
Location: 1925 residential building by Julia Morgan in the Marina
May 30, 2007Speaker: Shelley Bradford Bell, about the building history
Location: 1889 opera house on Newcomb Street
April 25, 2007Speaker: Win Hayward, about the church restoration
Location: 1892 Richardsonian Romanesque church by Percy & Hamilton on 23rd near Capp Street
March 28, 2007Location: 1914 public building designed by John W. Woollett in Mission District
February 28, 2007Speaker: Christopher Yerke of Restoration Workshop
Location: 1896 Queen Anne Tower by Fred P. Rabin on Haight Street at Buena Vista Park
January 31, 2007Location: 1888 Stick Eastlake attributed to John Marquis on Chattanooga near 23rd Street
December 10, 2006Annual Holiday Party
Location: 1886 Italianate by Henry Geilfuss on Grove Street near Fillmore
October 25, 2006Location: 1895 Queen Anne Tower by William H. Lillie on California near Franklin
September 27, 2006Speaker: Bill Kostura, about the prolific Victorian San Francisco architectural firm of Percy and Hamilton
Location: 1889 Stick style villa by Henry Geilfuss on Fulton at Alamo Square
August 30, 2006Speaker: James Dalessandro, screenwriter and author of the novel "1906", with his documentary film "The Damnedest Finest Ruins"
Location: 1886 Italianate by Henry Geilfuss on Grove Street near Fillmore
July 26, 2006Speakers: Evan Biship, Theresa Cho, Garrett Collins and John Gaul
Location: 1906 Shingle-style church by George Dodge & J. Walter Dolliver
June 28, 2006Speakers: Philip Hoffman and Grant Ute, Role of Street Railway in San Francisco's History
Location: 1884 Eastlake/Classical Revival by Albert Sutton on Hayes Street near Buchanan
May 31, 2006Speaker: Trina Lopez, regarding "San Francisco's Lost Cemeteries"
Location: 1886 Italianate by Henry Geilfuss on Grove Street near Fillmore
April 26, 2006Speaker: Gee Gee Platt regarding The Emporium
Location: 1893 Queen Anne by Absalom J. Barnett on Fell Street near Lyon
March 29, 2006Program: Carl Nolte of the SF Chronicle, author of "The San Francisco Century: A City Rises from the Ruins of the 1906 Earthquake and Fire"
Location: 1896 Queen Anne by William H. Lillie on Fell Street near Clayton
February 22, 2006Program: Bob Oaks, author of "San Francisco's Fillmore District"
Location: Western Addition Public Library - Scott Street near Geary Boulevard
January 25, 2006Program: Tour of Victorian restoration project
Location: Photo gallery on Florida near 17th Street

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