The Victorian Alliance of San Francisco

Today’s topic: picture rails.

Happy Juneteenth!

Today’s Victoriana topic: stained glass windows.

The Cohen-Bray house is a non-profit Victorian house museum in Oakland. Still owned by the same family. Many original furnishings (like the carpets!). You can buy these cards to help keep this great house museum going.

Wonderful things on the walls of the @cohenbrayhouse !#wallpaper #cracks #phonedrawing #micapowder Built and lived in by the same family since 1884. #oakland

When the Cliff House was a Victorian pile.

UPDATE: we now have the link to recording, so comment below if you’d like the link. I’m not putting the link itself on social media for privacy reasons. Hello members, Many of us logged into the online service for Joe Pecora today only find there was no sound. Several people notified the mortuary and learned they were recording the service rather than streaming it live. Subsequent attempts to watch the service later today did not work either. The mortuary has said it will post the recorded service within 24 hours. If you would like to be notified of that or to attempt to watch with other members, please leave your name in the comments. Please use this post. I cannot figure the page in box messaging. This was sad, frustrating, and oh so 2020, but we will come together to honor Joe one way or another. Thank you - Megan Smith

In Conversation with Anthea Hartig Interviewed by Nicole Meldahl (Executive Director, Western Neighborhoods Project) FREE for CAM members / $5 for non-members. Advance registration (by 12/15) required: https://www.calmuseums.org/remuseum2020 / Closed Captioning provided. How has this unprecedented year changed our vision for the role museums play in our lives and what positive takeaways can we harness as we move past pandemic into the new normal?... About the Speaker: Anthea M. Hartig is the Elizabeth MacMillan Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. She is the first woman to hold the position since the museum opened in 1964. See more

Petaluma neighbors are unhappy about plans by Levi Strauss heir Peter Haas for a remodel/gutting of an historic Brainerd Jones home on Sixth Street that would include a huge underground addition. A peek at the blueprints filed with the city shows the ambitious changes Haas has in mind for the elegant gray two-story Victorian designed more than a century ago by legendary Petaluma architect Brainerd Jones. Gone will be four of the home’s six bedrooms. Scheduled for demolition are fireplaces, balustrades, roofs, staircases, a chimney and a dormer roof window. https://www.sfchronicle.com//Big-plans-for-historic-Petalu Preserve Petaluma is asking concerned citizens to write Petaluma’s City council. Emails on the website: PreservePetaluma.com

Alliance member David Laudon writes: "Please take a break from all the election stuff and enjoy this SFGMC performance featuring Kristin Chenoweth. If you don't blink, you might even see me and Randy with our long COVID hair We'd love to get any many views today as possible. " https://youtu.be/wah9xwFYBQA

We are so excited to unveil our new online exhibit, A Very Victorian Christmas just in time for the holidays! Explore the exhibit and learn more about some of your favorite Christmas traditions!

Congratulations to Mike Buhler and thank you for your assistance to the Victorian Alliance over the past 10 years.

While renovating a house in San Francisco, a couple discovered a diary (and a love story), hidden away for more than a century. Victorian Alliance member, Christina Lalannewhose house featured in this year's Virtual Tourwrote a story about it. Available to read (or listen to!) at https://magazine.atavist.com/castles-in-the-sky-san-francis

If you're downtown on any Tuesday, Thursday, or Saturday between 10 am and 3 pm, show support for the cable cars by stopping by and saying hi to the crew!

Spooky flashlight tours of the Mayhem Mansion. In person. Reservations required. When: October 29-31, 7:00-11:00 PM Purchase tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/self-guided-flashlight-tours-a

It’s Giving Tuesday and I’m sure you’ve been inundated with requests from worthy causes. If you enjoyed our recent Open Victorians virtual house tour or even if you haven’t seen it yet, but want to help us support the preservation and restoration of historic buildings in San Francisco, please consider the Victorian Alliance. We have a brand new, handy donate button on our website to make it easy. Thank You for your support of the Victorian Alliance! https://www.victorianalliance.org

Julia Morgan -1932. 1830 Sutter Street. Now in process to be a city landmark!

Happening TODAY at 5 pm (PST). It’s free but you have register. Details below.

Victorian Alliance member and preservation professional Jim Gonzalez will be on the Front Parlor Salon panel tomorrow at 5 pm.

Victorian Alliance president, Rob Thomson, will be moderating the Front Parlor Salon coming up this Sunday at 5 (PST). Free. Click on the title to register.

Meet the panelists for our upcoming Front Parlor Salon - this Sunday at 5 (PST). Free. Register in advance for this webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us//register/WN_SRsyp-JyQbeU-aTaXiEoZA.

Have you registered for our Webinar, "Historic Preservation in a Changing Environment"? This event takes place on Sunday, October 25th at 5 pm PST and will close out our virtual home tour. Topics will focus on best practice strategies to build awareness of historic preservation in your community and managing scare resources and retaining significant community assets as developers and home owners assess their real estate purchases. Click here to register: https://us02web.zoom.us//register/WN_SRsyp-JyQbeU-aTaXiEoZA

Musical Salon and interesting and fun Panel about Victorian architecture and preservation by SF Victorian Alliance, FREE

A musical SALON and historic preservation panel this Sunday at 5 pm Free.

Coming this Sunday as part of our Virtual House Tour. FREE.