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1. Northwest City loop — San Francisco

26.5km

07:08

340m

Expert hike. Very good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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2. Painted Ladies & Haight-Ashbury loop — San Francisco

5.70km

01:36

110m

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3. Seven Painted Ladies – Conservatory of Flowers loop from Van Ness

20.8km

05:28

180m

Expert hike. Very good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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December 22, 2019

One of the best-known groups of "Painted Ladies" is the row of Victorian houses at 710–720 Steiner Street, across from Alamo Square park, in San Francisco. It is sometimes known as "Postcard Row;" they are also known as the Seven Sisters. The houses were built between 1892 and 1896 by developer Matthew Kavanaugh, who lived next door in the 1892 mansion at 722 Steiner St. They appear frequently in media and mass-market photographs of the city and its tourist attractions and in over 70 movies, TV programs, and ads, including the opening credits of the television series Full House and its sequel Fuller House.

In American architecture, painted ladies are Victorian and Edwardian houses repainted, starting in the 1960s, in three or more colors that enhance their architectural details. The term was first used for San Francisco Victorian houses by writers Elizabeth Pomada and Michael Larsen in their 1978 book Painted Ladies: San Francisco's Resplendent Victorians. About 48,000 houses in the Victorian and Edwardian styles were built in San Francisco between 1849 and 1915 (Edwardian starting with the death of Queen Victoria in 1901), and many were painted in bright colors. As one newspaper critic noted in 1885, "...red, yellow, chocolate, orange, everything that is loud is in fashion ... if the upper stories are not of red or blue ... they are painted up into uncouth panels of yellow and brown ..." Many of the Nob Hill mansions were destroyed by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, thousands of the mass-produced, more modest houses survived in western and southern neighborhoods.

During World War I and II, many of these houses were painted battleship gray with war-surplus Navy paint. 16'000 were demolished, and many others had the Victorian decor stripped off or covered with siding. In 1963, San Francisco artist Butch Kardum began combining intense blues and greens on the exterior of his Italianate-style Victorian house. Criticized by some, but other neighbors began to copy the bright colors on their own houses. Kardum became a color designer, and he and other artists / colorists such as Tony Canaletich, Bob Buckter, and Jazon Wonders began to transform dozens of gray houses into Painted Ladies. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painted_ladies

For many people, the best photo is when the sun is setting in the west, casting a sunset glow over these houses and Alamo Square. If the opportunity arises, make time to take a tour inside one of the homes.

Lahaina

October 29, 2018

At Alamo Square you have the perfect view of this attraction, which has also become known through the series "Full House".

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November 4, 2018

From the opposite Alamo Square Park you have a great view of the row of houses of the US sitcom "FullHouse". Just sit on the grass and relax.

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Location: San Francisco, United States

Seven Painted Ladies

1. Northwest City loop — San Francisco

2. Painted Ladies & Haight-Ashbury loop — San Francisco

3. Seven Painted Ladies – Conservatory of Flowers loop from Van Ness

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