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Noe Valley Information
Noe Valley is a neighborhood in the central part of San Francisco,
California. Its borders are generally considered to be roughly 21st Street to
the North, 30th Street to the South, Dolores Street to the East, and Grandview
Street and the Diamond Heights neigborhood to the West, although these borders
are somewhat flexible, particularly among real estate agents. The Castro
neighborhood is directly to Noe Valley's North and The Mission is to its East.
Like many other San Francisco neighborhoods, Noe Valley started out as a
working-class neighborhood for employees in San Francisco's once-thriving
blue-collar economy, and their families. Also like other San Francisco
neighborhoods, Noe Valley has since undergone successive waves of gentrification
and is now considered an upscale, yuppie area. It is home to many urban
professionals, particularly young couples with young children, and it is not
unusual for a well-maintained house in Noe Valley to sell for a million dollars
or more.
Public transportation to Noe Valley is provided by the Muni 24, 35, and 48 bus
lines, and by the J Church Muni Metro line. The Neighborhood is named
after Jose de Jesus Noe, the last Mexican alcalde (or mayor) of Yerba Buena
(present day San Francisco).
Noe Valley was primarily built up at the end of the 19th century and at the
beginning of the 20th century, especially in the years just after the 1906 San
Francisco Earthquake. As a result, the neighborhood contains many examples of
the "classic" Victorian and Edwardian residential architecture for which San
Francisco is famous. Noe Valley being a working-class neighborhood, houses were
built in rows, with some of the efficient, low-cost row houses being more ornate
than others, depending on the owner's taste and finances. Today, Noe Valley has
the highest concentration of row houses in San Francisco, with streets having
three to four and sometimes as many as a dozen on the same side of the same
street. Few rows remain untouched.
Many Noe Valley streets were laid out and named by John Meirs Horner, who named
Elizabeth Street after his wife and Jersey Street after the state where he was
born. Most of Noe Valley is still called Horner's Addition for tax purposes by
the city assessor's office.