The Northwest district is bordered by the Pacific Ocean on the west, the Presidio on the north, Presidio and Masonic Avenues on the east, and Golden Gate Park on the south.

The district includes Mountain Lake and Sutro Heights Parks, as well as easy access to Golden Gate and Lincoln Parks, Ocean and Baker Beaches and the Presidio.

This northwest corner of the city is bounded on three sides by some of the richest open space and recreational resources available to a metropolitan community anywhere. Sometimes called the Park Presidio, it includes sonic of the city’s more elegant neighborhoods and a shopping street. Clement, that combines Chinese, Russian and artistic elements. Basically it is solid middle class.

Boundaries: Presidio Avenue, Masonic Avenue, Anza Street, Parker Avenue, Turk Boulevard, Stanyan Street. Golden Gate Park, the Presidio, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, the ocean

1A - Clement Street - When a shopping strip becomes a neighborhood. it has to have a number of interesting shops and restaurants to get people talking about it as s place. With its Russian bakeries and delicatessens, antique shops and restaurants of oriental and European flavors. Clement Street is such in the mile and a half of its commercial section.

Boundaries: Arguello Boulevard to 27th Avenue.

1A - Washington Heights (Central Richmond) - Eight blocks of homes, flats and apartment houses surrounding George Washington High School whose white columns create a vaguely Parthenon like effect from below.

Boundaries: Geary Boulevard, Balboa Street, 30th and 32nd Avenues.

1B - Inner Richmond - its most eye catching landmark is the dome of Temple Emanuel, a Reform Judaism synagogue. Its more distinctive bars tend to be Irish its better restaurants Russian and Chinese. Typically, its housing is 1920s era duplex flats but among its lesser known treasures are spacious Edwardian homes, many with eccentric architecture.

Boundaries: Arguello to Park Presidio Boulevards, Fulton Street to the Presidio Wall.

1C - Jordan Park - The city may change but Jordan Park seems forever genteel. Its homes are not pretentious, but they are mostly detached, designed with restraint and nicely landscaped. Utilities are underground and commerce, too, is kept out of sight on surrounding arterials.

Boundaries: Geary Boulevard. California Street. Palm to Parker Avenues.

1C - Laurel Heights - Like Anza Vista, this was a graveyard until the 1930s when Laurel Hill, as it used to be known, began to sprout clean, white houses for the growing city. (The caskets were removed.) The neighborhood has remained a prosperous one, its houses still clean and white. Its Laurel Village shopping center caters not only to inhabitants but to an elite clientele from Pacific Lind Presidio Heights.

Boundaries: Masonic Avenue, Parker, California Street and an east west line ext ending south from Euclid Avenue.

1D - North of Lake - Those who live in the series of single blocks that separate Lake Street from the Presidio Wall think of their terrain as a world apart from the Richmond District. Many of their homes are detached. Each block, being a cul de sac, is almost free from traffic And I he scale and style of the homes suggest that these blocks north of Lake Street are a notch above the rest of the Richmond.

Boundaries: Lake Street, Presidio Wall, Fifth through 21st Avenues.

1D - West Clay Park (Lake) - If Sea Cliff is a Rolls Royce among Richmond District neighborhoods, nearby West Clay Park is the Bentley: perhaps diffident in its lack of ostentation yet a neighborhood of status. Its two story. Square-shaped houses of imposing size are pleasantly isolated by the Presidio which the neighborhood abuts.

Boundaries: 22nd and 24th Avenues between Lake Street and the Presidio.

1E - Lincoln Manor (Outer Richmond) - A select corner of the Outer Richmond where the houses are old, gracious and big enough for large families plus household help. Also called Shore View Terrace.

Boundaries: 36th to 38th Avenue, Geary Boulevard to Clement Street. 1E - Outer Richmond This peninsula of houses between the Golden Gate, the Pacific Ocean and Golden Gate Park has a central landmark in the golden turrets of the Russian Holy Virgin Cathedral. That and its Chinese restaurants are indications of the San Francisco inciting pot.

Boundaries: Park Presidio Boulevard, the Great Highway, Presidio Wall, the Golden Gate and Fulton Street.1E -

1E - Vista del Mar (Outer Richmond) - A subdivision of middle class, attached dwellings first built in 1932 on land once owned by the Sutro family. Whatever seaside atmosphere is lacking in its architecture is compensated by its coastal perch.

Boundaries: 45th to 48th Avenues, Seal Rock Drive to Balboa Street.

1F - Sea Cliff - Big city living offers few such residential subdivisions so dramatically perched as this: just high enough above sea level to be out of the waves' reach, yet close enough to the shore to afford its residents a sense of intimacy with salt spray and the sound of surf. Its winding, landscaped streets, free from the sky obscuring lines of overhead wiring, are attracting many sightseers as do two beaches, China and Baker situated where the Golden Gate meets the Pacific Ocean,

Boundaries: 28th through 32nd Avenues along the side of California Street; 25th, 26th and 27th Avenues north of El Camino del Mar; Lincoln Park, the Presidio and the sea.

1G - Francisco Heights (Lone Mountain) - Upper middle income houses, attached, characterize this subdivision west or Lone Mountain which Coldwell. Cornwall & Banker subdivided in 1935 and which FHA money helped get off the sand dunes. Houses are similar, of white or pastel colors and have tiny patches or greenery in front. Rossi Park and the Odd Fellows Columbarium add visual interest.

Boundaries: Geary Boulevard, Parker Avenue, Turk and Arguello Boulevards.

1G - Rossi Park (Lone Mountain) - Those on the flat portion of Francisco Heights like to think of their tiny island or quiet as a neighborhood of its own, named for the adjoining playground. Decades old, the houses still look almost new. And the streets are protected from the traffic of Geary Boulevard.

Boundaries: Rossi Avenue, Edward Street, Willard Street, Loraine and Almaden Courts.

1G - University Terrace - A plush little tract of handsome, upper middle income level homes in an island of urban quiet, surrounded by the greenery of the University of San Francisco and Lone Mountain College, except for three blocks that are on the south side of USF.

Boundaries: Turk Boulevard, Fulton Street, Masonic and Parker Avenues.