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The Sunset District

The Sunset District is a sprawling, mostly residential neighborhood located directly south of Golden Gate Park. The largest district in San Francisco, and one of the last areas of the City to be originally developed, many of the homes and buildings in this neighborhood were built between the 1920s and the 1950s, with the vast majority of construction taking place during the 1930s and '40s. Like its neighbor the Richmond District, which flanks Golden Gate Park from the north, the Sunset District has been divided into several sections: "Inner Sunset," "Central Sunset" and "Outer Sunset" (the areas that comprise the northern half of the district), and "Inner Parkside," "Central Parkside" and "Outer Parkside" (the southern half of the district). An area southwest of the Inner Sunset and northeast of the Inner Parkside forms yet another sub-district known as "Golden Gate Heights." Also like the Richmond, the Sunset District is close to the Pacific Ocean (indeed, the ocean serves as the western border for both the Outer Sunset and Outer Parkside neighborhoods); for this reason, the area tends to be blanketed foggy during the morning and early afternoon hours, especially during the summer.

Inner Parkside

Inner Parkside is the narrow strip that borders the Central Parkside district to the west, Golden Gate Heights and upper West Portal to the east, the Inner Sunset to the north, and St. Francis Wood to the south. Mostly residential, its borders run from approximately from Ortega Street to Wawona Street north/south, and from 14th Avenue to 19th Avenue east/west. Like many houses in the greater Sunset District, the properties in the Inner Parkside tend to be older, narrow, two-story layouts (mostly Edwardian and Victorian in design), with windows along the front and backyard sides, with a single-car garage, entrance, and utility space on the first floor, and a living room, bath, kitchen/dining area and two bedrooms on the second floor.