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Harvard St

14 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Harvard St, between 1913 and 1958, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1950s; often about railroads and spur tracks, paving and grading.

Open Harvard St on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

  • Railroads and spur tracks2Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • Paving and grading2Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.

Decade by decade

Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.

  1. 1950s5
    About $6,200 in city aid to grade Harvard Street · 1957
  2. 1940s2
    City takes over the new roadway on Silliman Street · 1941
  3. 1930s2
    Parcels on Harvard Street traded for land of equal value · 1937
  4. 1920s3
    Park land at Harvard and Bacon streets bought for $803.50 · 1927
  5. 1910s2
    Street levels changed on Silver Avenue, Madison and Harvard streets · 1913

The most notable decisions

Where this comes from

Every decision the record places on this street is here. Every line is written from one item in the minutes of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, the city council, and links to the page it was printed on at the Internet Archive or in the Clerk's own files. Many of the Board's decisions name no street at all, and only the ones that do can be placed here. How the record was read · The whole city