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Russian Hill-Vallejo Street Crest Historic District, Historic residential district on Russian Hill, San Francisco, United States.

The Russian Hill-Vallejo Street Crest Historic District is a 4-acre residential enclave defined by retaining walls and a natural bluff. It contains 27 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 5 contributing structures, with works by architects Willis Polk, Charles F. Whittlesey, Julia Morgan, Albert Farr, Charles W. McCall, and amateur Joseph Worcester. The district is roughly bounded by 1020-1032 Broadway, 1-49 Florence Street, 1728-1742 Jones Street, 1-7 Russian Hill Place, 1629-1715 Taylor Street, and 1000-1085 Vallejo Street.

The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 22, 1988, for its people, events and architecture. Its 27 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites and 5 contributing structures survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. The area is a residential enclave defined by retaining walls and a natural bluff.

Former residents of this enclave include painter Maynard Dixon, photographer Dorothea Lange, poet Sara Bard Field and writer Rose Wilder Lane. Painter Mary Curtis Richardson and architect Willis Polk also lived here, and the amateur architect Joseph Worcester left one of his few surviving works in the district.

The district is a residential enclave defined by retaining walls and a natural bluff, bounded roughly by Broadway, Florence Street, Jones Street, Russian Hill Place, Taylor Street and Vallejo Street. Its streets climb steeply, so allow time to walk the blocks on foot. The 27 contributing buildings, 2 sites and 5 structures are private homes; view them from the public street.

The Atkinson House, built in 1853, stands as one of the city's earliest examples of Italian villa-style architecture and predates the disaster of 1906. This home reveals what San Francisco's oldest structures looked like before the widespread destruction that reshaped the city.

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