The district includes Alta Plaza and Lafayette Parks and has easy access to the Marina Green and Fort Mason.

Marina - Pacific Heights - Presidio Heights - Cow Hollow

7A - The Marina - What was just a middle class neighborhood developed on the site or the Panama Pacific International Exposition of 1915 has become, during this age of the real estate boom, an area for people with means. There is logic to its climb in status: large flats, usually well maintained convenience to the bay, downtown and Marin County. First class shopping and restaurant facilities along Chestnut and Lombard Streets, and a delightful pond for duck feeding at the adjacent Palace of Fine Arts. Besides, curving streets break the usual crisscross monotony or straight thoroughfares.

Boundaries: Laguna Street to the Presidio, Lombard Street to the bay. Many people think the Marina extends to Van Ness Avenue, but those eastern blocks were not part of the original Marina Vanderbilt Tract.

7B - Pacific Heights - Traditional dwelling place of the local four hundred. What mansions remain or the more impressive dwellings tend to be boarding houses, schools, consulates or apartment houses today. Others have been replaced by condominiums and cooperatives that rise many stories. The neighborhood encompasses two large parks, Lafayette and Alta Plaza. Since a heights address costs more in rent or price tag, locals are loose with the neighborhood boundaries so loose that real estate people have re named a strip of an upcoming but once shabby area to the south Baja Pacific Heights.

Boundaries, not including Baja Pacific Heights: Van Ness to Presidio Avenues, Sacramento to Green Streets.

7B - Tuckerville - An historical name this, used mostly in histories to describe the Victorian house neighborhood developed by J. W, Tucker, a jeweler, in that area.

Boundaries: Buchanan to Webster Streets and Washington Street to Pacific Avenue.

7B - Alta Plaza - Neighborhood named for the park and playground which it surrounds. Residences include a number of expensive flats and apartments and on its southern side, one of the city's favorite rows of restored Victorian houses.

Boundaries: Clay, Scott, Jackson and Steiner Streets.

7B - Gulliver's Hill (Sacramento) – Its residents tend to call their area of better flats and apartments Pacific Heights, Upper Marina or Cow Hollow. Actually, they live on a slope named after an old-time dairyman. Capt. Charles Gulliver.

Boundaries: Buchanan to Fillmore, Union to Vallejo Streets.

7B/C - Sacramento Street - When one speaks of this street as a center for art galleries, boutiques and interior decor studios, it is Sacramento Street that comes to mind. The once dowdy area has become chic.

Boundaries: Sacramento Street from Divisadero to Cherry.

7C - Presidio Heights - Socially, it's more akin to the Pacific Heights part of the Western Addition, but there's a lower density to this area, hence a more staid environment than in the district to the cast. There are no high rise apartments here, only big houses, many of which are elegant mansions. Architecturally, it is noteworthy for works by Bernard Maybeck Ernest Coxhead and an initiation of Marie Antoinette's Petit Trianon.

Boundaries: Arguello Boulevard. Presidio Avenue, the Presidio Wall to Sacramento Street.

7C - Presidio Terrace - A one street neighborhood in which the houses and gardens are of sufficient size to say that their residents are people or means. Most of the houses fail to impress scholars or fine architecture, but the total effect is indeed attractive. Then, too, this circular street is isolated and quiet.

Boundaries: Arguello Boulevard, the Presidio Wall, and the cul de sacs of Second and Third Avenues.

7D - Cow Hollow - Where cows grazed is now one of the better neighborhoods in town, so good in fact that many people who live outside its boundaries say they live within. Its real character is largely that or Pacific Heights mostly large houses and large flats and apartments that go for commensurate prices, rents and property taxes. A deprived area in one respect: it has but one tiny playground and no parks.

Boundaries: Fillmore, Lyon, Jackson and Greenwich Streets.

7D - Union Street (Cow Hollow)- A street that is a social institution. The designation refers to a strip three fourths of a mile long where many people like to shop, eat, drink and meet or mate.

Boundaries: Union from Franklin to Steiner and the adjacent blocks of Fillmore from Union to Greenwich Street.

7D - Upper Marina (Cow Hollow) - An unofficial designation, but some of its residents prefer to call their area this rather than to refer to it under the more pretentious labels of Lower Pacific Heights or Cow Hollow. It encompasses some elegant homes, a great many flats, the bustling strip of Union Street and some out of sight real estate prices. Also called Golden Gate Valley.

Boundaries: Lombard and Green Streets, Van Ness Avenue and the Presidio.

The Presidio

A district apart from the rest of town, this is federal property governed by the U.S. Army and the National Park Service. Besides its lush scenery and views, its attractions and institutions include two beaches, Forts Point and Winfield Scott, old-time fortifications, a U.S. Public Health Service hospital, a lake, a golf course, a national military cemetery, historic sites, a military hospital, an air strip and picnic sites galore.

Boundaries: 25th Avenue and the Golden Gate, both at the west and north, Lyon Street at the cast, West Pacific Avenue and the Presidio Wall to the south.