Does it Spark Joy? How San Francisco Decides What to Keep

Moving a Victorian in the Fillmore. Still from SF Heritage’s 50th Anniversary Documentary.

This article originally appeared in the September 2022 issue of the SF Apartment Association Magazine.

Movements

As with so much in the history of US cities, preservation movements began largely in response to the heavy-handed excesses of midcentury redevelopment.¹ The National Historic Preservation Act was passed in 1966, with most…