OpenStreetMap (new tab)

Google Map (new tab)

Valencia Gardens #1 started as a United States Housing Authority low-rent project with 246 units; San Francisco architect William W. Wurster associated with another San Francisco architect, Harry A. Thomsen, Jr., on the complex's design, and Thomas D. Church, served as the landscape architect; Valencia Gardens was hailed by critics just after its construction; it was included in the famous "Built in USA: Since 1932" exhibition, held at the Museum of Modern Art in 1944 and thereafter across the nation. (See Elizabeth Mock, ed., Built in USA: Since 1932, p. 58-59);

Valencia Gardens #1 became notorious in its later years, becoming one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in San Francisco; the last 246 families moved from the complex in July 2003; Demolition began in autumn 2003 and continued into 2004. A second Valencia Gardens public housing complex was undertaken in Van Meter Williams Pollack Architects LLP, of San Francisco, CA, in 2005-2006;

PCAD id: 25