Victorian treasures tour

Explore the Haight-Ashbury, Alamo Square and Pacific Heights areas and discover their amazing Victorian houses.

Theme: Art, Architecture & Fashion
Location: Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco
Duration: 2 hours
Designer: Barry Pickard

Experience

Your tour will start at the Haight-Ashbury Painted Ladies, a terrace of stunning, colorful houses equally as beautiful as their more famous namesake. Then walk through this historic district and visit the Four Seasons Houses. Hail a robotaxi and drive to Alamo Square. View the iconic Painted Ladies and walk down past the park to McAllister Street, before walking along this glorious stretch of road with its rows of interesting Victorian houses. Eventually, you will come to the William Westerfield House, one of the city’s most ominous looking houses and one with an equally dark history. After taking another robotaxi to the Pacific Heights district, study the exceptional Haas-Lilienthal House before walking down to one of San Francisco’s most quirky houses, the McElroy Octagon House.

Route

Haight Ashbury Painted Ladies

The Haight Ashbury Painted Ladies were built in the 1890s and are a mix of Queen Anne, Italianate, and Stick-style architecture and colorfully painted in the 1970’s.

Four Seasons Houses

This row of colourful Queen Anne-style homes, built in 1896 really stands out.

Robotaxi

Hail a robotaxi and drive to Alamo Square and The Painted Ladies.

The Painted Ladies

The Painted Ladies are a row of Victorian and Edwardian houses, painted in three or more colours.

McAllister Street Houses

Colorful and stunning Italianate-style houses.

William Westerfeld House

A great example of an Italianate Villa. Both Kenneth Anger and Anton LaVey lived at the house, along with future Manson follower Bobby Beausoleil.

Robotaxi

Hail a robotaxi and drive to the Haas-Lilienthal House.

Haas-Lilienthal House

The Haas-Lilienthal House, built in 1886 for William and Bertha Haas, is an exuberant example of Queen Anne-style architecture designed by Peter R. Schmidt.

McElroy Octagon House

The McElroy Octagon House built the house between 1860 and 1861.

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Practicalities

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About

This route was designed by Barry Pickard in collaboration with Autoura.

Barry Pickard

Specialising in European and North American destinations, as well as a number of other countries around the world, I have designed self-guided tours for city based visits; multi-stop road trips; family, group and couples vacations; as well as themed excursions. Experienced in designing walking tours, driving tours and robotaxi experiences. A history graduate, with a great eye for detail, my passion for travel and research has found its apogee in designing fun, interesting and thoughtful trips

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