Welcome to Best San Francisco Properties: The Neighborhoods: Eureka Valley


	Eureka is the Greek word for "I found it!", adopted in 1850 as California's motto and included in the state seal. The boom in housing in this area began in 1887 following the opening of the Market Street Cable Railway.
				*Eureka Valley from the Pemberton Stairs*


			The Castro Street line had some of the steepest grades of any cable line with an 18.4 percent grade between Twenty-second and Twenty-third streets (top of picture).
		Diamond at Market looking up to Dolores Heights



	Lower and middle class families then flocked into this sunny valley. Although primarily the working class, San Francisco's workers were well-paid even then and shows in the comfortable houses that emerged. German and Scandanavians, then Irish American families folded in.
				*The Castro Theater, Landmark 100, Timothy Pflueger, 1922*



		Looking up toward Twin Peaks on Market street, the rainbow flag at Castro, a Norfolk Island Pine (Heterophylla excelsia), and a beautifully restored Neo Classical building (built as a bank during a boom in the 1920's), wraps around the corner providing a colorful visual sweep.


		*Church Street near Market*