Winfield
10 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Winfield, between 1907 and 1910, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1900s; often about street name changes, railroads and spur tracks, paving and grading.
What keeps coming up
- Street name changes3When a street was given a different name.
- 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.
The most notable decisions
Eureka Construction paid for sewers in Ocean and San Jose Avenues
Resolution · 18 March 1907 ↗Street levels changed on Cortland Avenue and Elsie Street
Ordinance · 11 April 1910 ↗Street levels to be changed on Cortland Avenue and Elsie Street
Resolution · 8 February 1910 ↗Street levels to be changed on Virginia, Prospect and Winfield avenues
Ordinance · 13 December 1909 ↗Street levels reset on Virginia, Prospect and Winfield avenues
Ordinance · 21 February 1909 ↗Job of revising the city's ordinances abolished
Ordinance · 1 April 1907 ↗Name change to Winfield Avenue finally passed
Ordinance · passed · 1 April 1907 ↗China Avenue proposed to be renamed Excelsior Avenue
Ordinance · proposed · 25 March 1907 ↗Chapultepec Street to be renamed Winfield Avenue
Ordinance · 18 March 1907 ↗
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