Painted Ladies, row of Victorian houses in Alamo Square, San Francisco, US

The Painted Ladies are the row of Victorian houses at 710–720 Steiner Street, facing Alamo Square park. The narrow, multi-storey facades stand side by side on a slope, each with a steep front-facing gable roof clad in dark shingles, tall narrow windows and a small entrance porch with steps. Decorative sawn-wood trim outlines the gables, and the houses are painted in several colours that pick out the architectural details.

The row at 710–720 Steiner Street was built between 1892 and 1896 by developer Matthew Kavanaugh, who lived next door at 722 Steiner Street. San Francisco had roughly 48,000 Victorian and Edwardian houses built between 1849 and 1915; many were painted battleship gray with war-surplus Navy paint during the World Wars, and about 16,000 were demolished. From 1963, artist Butch Kardum's blue-and-green house set off the colorist movement that repainted such facades.

The term was coined by Elizabeth Pomada and Michael Larsen in their 1978 book Painted Ladies: San Francisco's Resplendent Victorians. In 19th-century slang, "painted ladies" meant prostitutes, since respectable women did not wear conspicuous makeup. The row at 710–720 Steiner Street appears in an estimated 70 films, TV programmes and ads, including the opening credits of Full House.

The houses face Alamo Square Park, from where you can photograph them easily. They are private homes without public access, but the street in front of them is open to walk through.

The row at 710–720 Steiner Street is known as the Seven Sisters and appears in an estimated 70 films, TV programmes and adverts, including the opening credits of Full House and Fuller House. Number 714 sold for $3.5 million in 2020 and was on the market again in 2022.