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.
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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.
- 1950s5About $6,200 in city aid to grade Harvard Street · 1957
- 1940s2City takes over the new roadway on Silliman Street · 1941
- 1930s2Parcels on Harvard Street traded for land of equal value · 1937
- 1920s3Park land at Harvard and Bacon streets bought for $803.50 · 1927
- 1910s2Street levels changed on Silver Avenue, Madison and Harvard streets · 1913
The most notable decisions
Park land at Harvard and Bacon streets bought for $803.50
Resolution · 2 May 1927 ↗Land bought at the corner of Harvard and Bacon streets
Resolution · 16 May 1927 ↗City takes over the new roadway on Silliman Street
Ordinance · 18 August 1941 ↗City takes over the roadways of Cayuga and Naglee Avenues
Ordinance · 4 August 1941 ↗Parcels on Harvard Street traded for land of equal value
Ordinance · 10 May 1937 ↗About $6,200 in city aid to grade Harvard Street
Ordinance · 20 May 1957 ↗John Cosgrove trades land with the city near Harvard Street
Ordinance · 24 May 1937 ↗Street levels changed on Felton and Harvard Streets
Resolution · 2 February 1953 ↗Street levels changed on Silver Avenue, Madison and Harvard streets
Ordinance · 9 June 1913 ↗Jackson Street closed for the Jackson Square Day celebration
Resolution · 19 May 1958 ↗
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