Corona Heights

Corona Heights is a neighborhood within San Francisco, California, located just North of Market Street and Eureka Valley. Corona Heights is often considered part of The Castro and Upper Market areas. The Corona Heights neighborhood stretches between Buena Vista Park and Eureka Valley. The streets within Corona Heights were literally cut out of the large hill that once encompassed all of Buena Vista Park and extended all the way down to Market Street. In 1899, excavation began on the hill to make way for the Gray Brothers Quarry and brick factory. The quarry had removed tons of rock and produced tens of thousands of bricks, creating a blasted landscape (seen in the photo). George and Harry Gray (the Gray brothers) owned a total of three...