
San Francisco Heritage
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Since 1971, San Francisco Heritage has been leading the civic discussion about the compatibility of rapid change with protecting our past. Heritage is a membership organization with a mission to preserve and enhance San Francisco’s unique architectural and cultural identity. This includes advocacy for historic resources, education programs, and tours and rental of the 1886 Haas-Lilienthal House.
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Heritage’s 2020 Lecture Series Programs
In addition to a new guided walking tour and their San Francisco History Days 2020 program listed below, San Francisco Heritage invites you to their Lecture Series, which explores the breadth of San Francisco’s cultural inheritance, usually held in historic settings throughout the city. Due to the uncertain nature of the COVID-19 crisis, they are hosting an all-virtual 2020 season, made free and open to the public online.
The theme of this year’s series is Women in Preservation, and each program will spotlight and celebrate women both past and present who have worked to preserve San Francisco’s unique cultural and architectural heritage. Our virtual programs will incorporate historic photos, maps, audio, and video, and be recorded for subsequent sharing and archiving.
Catch up with their July, August, and September programs here, and visit their events page for information on their upcoming programs.
Haas-Lilienthal House
And who could forget the Haas-Lilienthal House? In 1973, a year after the death of Alice Haas Lilienthal (1885-1972) her three children, Ernest, Elizabeth, and Frances, donated the family home and its contents to SF Heritage. The Haas-Lilienthal house serves myriad functions today, as a house museum, a venue for meetings, performances, and social events, and as Heritage’s administrative offices, library, and archive. The house is recognized as San Francisco Landmark No. 69 and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
To learn more about the Haas-Lilienthal House and the Haas/Lilienthal family, please visit our website: https://www.haas-lilienthalhouse.org/
Saturday, September 26, 2020 and Sunday, September 27, 2020 All Day – (In-Person) New Self-Guided Walking Tour of Pacific Heights

Sunday, September 27, 2020 at 1:00PM – (Virtual) Heritage in the Neighborhoods