DTNA - Duboce Triangle Neighborhood Association
Welcome to DTNA!
The Duboce Triangle Neighborhood Association (DTNA) represents residents, businesses and property owners in San Francisco's Duboce Triangle neighborhood, bordered by Market St., Castro St., Divisidero St., Waller St., Webster St. and Duboce Avenue. Our goal is to protect, maintain and improve our neighborhood quality of life, and ensure that the Duboce Triangle continues to be San Francisco's very best neighborhood in which to live, work and play.
We hold monthly community meetings on the second Monday in February, April, June, August, October and December, at which we cover topics important to our neighborhood. Click on "Meetings" more more information. Our next general meeting will be held on Monday, August 12, from 7-9:00 pm at CPMC Davies Hospital, Conference Center, South Tower, Level B, Castro St. and Duboce Ave. We hope to see you there!
We publish a bimonthly newsletter which is distributed, free of charge, to over 3,000 households in our neighborhood, and sent to city leaders. Please support the local businesses which advertise in our newsletter and allow us to provide you with this valuable service.
DTNA also has active committees working on Land Use and Transportation issues. We're always looking for volunteers interested in participating. Click on the links above for more information.
If you live in the neighborhood and are not yet a DTNA member, please Join us and support our efforts!
We hold monthly community meetings on the second Monday in February, April, June, August, October and December, at which we cover topics important to our neighborhood. Click on "Meetings" more more information. Our next general meeting will be held on Monday, August 12, from 7-9:00 pm at CPMC Davies Hospital, Conference Center, South Tower, Level B, Castro St. and Duboce Ave. We hope to see you there!
We publish a bimonthly newsletter which is distributed, free of charge, to over 3,000 households in our neighborhood, and sent to city leaders. Please support the local businesses which advertise in our newsletter and allow us to provide you with this valuable service.
DTNA also has active committees working on Land Use and Transportation issues. We're always looking for volunteers interested in participating. Click on the links above for more information.
If you live in the neighborhood and are not yet a DTNA member, please Join us and support our efforts!
Landmark Recognition Ceremony, Wednesday July 24
Tomorrow, Wednesday July 24, at 11:30 am, there will be a short ceremony at 22 Beaver St, the Benedict-Gieling House, to present the plaque commemorating San Francisco's newest Historic Landmark. Mayor Breed and Supervisor Rafael Mandelman will be there to make brief remarks.
Please attend, if you can, and learn a bit about this important bit of our rich neighborhood history!
Constructed circa 1870 by a silver refiner named Jacob Benedict and his family, the Benedict-Gieling House and its carriage house is a very early and well-preserved example of an Italianate villa located within a landscaped garden setting. The house embodies many characteristics of the Italianate villa type, including its portico, tower, cross-gable roof, bracketed cornice, fluted door and window trim, and segmental-arched windows with bracketed hoods. In contrast to the much more common Italianate rowhouse which usually has only one ornamented façade, there is Italianate detailing on three of its four exterior elevations, indicating that it was meant to be appreciated within its landscaped garden setting unobscured by adjoining buildings. It slowly deteriorated as a boarding house in the 1940s through 1950s until 1964 when John and Imogene “Tex” Gieling carefully began restoration.
You can learn more in the official Landmark Designation Report here: http://default.sfplanning.org/Preservation/landmarks_designation/hp_landmark_report_22_Beaver.pdf
Please attend, if you can, and learn a bit about this important bit of our rich neighborhood history!
Constructed circa 1870 by a silver refiner named Jacob Benedict and his family, the Benedict-Gieling House and its carriage house is a very early and well-preserved example of an Italianate villa located within a landscaped garden setting. The house embodies many characteristics of the Italianate villa type, including its portico, tower, cross-gable roof, bracketed cornice, fluted door and window trim, and segmental-arched windows with bracketed hoods. In contrast to the much more common Italianate rowhouse which usually has only one ornamented façade, there is Italianate detailing on three of its four exterior elevations, indicating that it was meant to be appreciated within its landscaped garden setting unobscured by adjoining buildings. It slowly deteriorated as a boarding house in the 1940s through 1950s until 1964 when John and Imogene “Tex” Gieling carefully began restoration.
You can learn more in the official Landmark Designation Report here: http://default.sfplanning.org/Preservation/landmarks_designation/hp_landmark_report_22_Beaver.pdf
Frequently Asked Questions about the proposed Historic District
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DTNA is launching a fundraising drive to pay for completion of a historic survey of our Duboce Triangle Neighborhood. The goal is to have our neighborhood listed in the California Registry of Historical Places, so that its character can be recognized and preserved for future generations to enjoy. Listing in the California Registry provides some protection against demolition of historic resources by speculators or developers. We need to raise about $30,000 in the next few months, and we can’t do it without the generous help of neighbors throughout the Triangle. Please DONATE and select “Historic Preservation.” Please encourage your neighbors to help too! Donations may be tax-deductible, DTNA is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. |
DTNA Launches Fundraising Drive for Historic Survey of Neighborhood
More than a decade ago, the eastern half of our Duboce Triangle neighborhood underwent a historic survey; a result of DTNA's advocacy during the creation of the Market & Octavia Area Plan. However, that survey stopped at Noe St. Now DTNA is kicking off a fundraising effort, hoping to raise the roughly $30,000 cost to complete the historic survey of the western part of our neighborhood, update the existing portion to reflect changes which have occurred since its creation, and produce a historic context statement for a potential Duboce Triangle Historic District.
Gaining recognition for the historic character of our neighborhood on the California Register of Historic Resources is the only way to ensure that its character can be protected for future generations to enjoy. You will read more about some new threats to our historic neighborhood and DTNA's efforts to protect it in future issues of the Duboce Triangle News. We are accepting donations toward the cost of the survey effort, and would be grateful for your help.
Gaining recognition for the historic character of our neighborhood on the California Register of Historic Resources is the only way to ensure that its character can be protected for future generations to enjoy. You will read more about some new threats to our historic neighborhood and DTNA's efforts to protect it in future issues of the Duboce Triangle News. We are accepting donations toward the cost of the survey effort, and would be grateful for your help.
Syringe Access Presentation from February DTNA General Meeting
At out February, 2019 General Meeting, Dr. Eileen Loughran from the Department of Public Health spoke about the syringe access program, in which clean syringes are made available to injection drug users in order to prevent the transmission of HIV, Hepatitis, and other blood-borne diseases. You can download a copy of her presentation here.
Castro and Upper Market Retail Strategy Releases Findings
Read all about it on their website: www.castroretail.com
