Geography
This hillside community is a positive neighborhood with narrow lanes and old style homes that are frequently set noticeably above street level. This neighborhood has great views of San Francisco Bay.
As is the case in surrounding neighborhoods the geography of Glen Park has helped dictate the nature of its growth.
The steepness of the hills and hillsides adjacent to Glen Canyon demanded street planning and building plot design that reflected the topography and did not follow the normal urbanization grid. The majority of streets of existing Glen Park were plotted the 1890s to follow the existing curve of the precipitous hillsides.
You will find the heart of downtown Glen Park at Chenery Street and Diamond Street. The oldest surviving commercial building in Glen Park sits on that corner. This two-story saloon displayed the Eastlake style (Victorian Stick style), a more angular and plainer architectural style, that soon lost favor with the American building public as the more ornate Queen Anne’s took over American construction design. This structure, in the beginning featured a big tank house and stables being built in the early 1890s. About a block from this old building you will also find the oldest
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residential structure in Glen Park. Next to the Glen Park Library is a tiny gable-roofed bungalow located twenty feet back from the street, this home was built in 1872.
The post earthquake-building boom created a large number of diminutive gable-roofed, bay-windowed bungalows that are still a familiar site in Glen Park today.
The main demographic change took place in Glen Park during the 1960s. The ethnic integration that turned this predominately white community into an ethnically diverse neighborhood took place up until the 1980s. The impressive character of the natural beauty of this area, the village atmosphere and first-rate public transportation has kept residents in the community while attracting young families to move in. This rise in popularity of Glen Park has pushed up the cost of homes up turning this multi ethnic community from a working class neighborhood to a professional suburb.
Glen Park is bounded by 29th Street on the north, Roanoke Street and Moffit Street on the east, Wilder Street on the south and Diamond Heights Boulevard on the west.
Home prices here range from $550,000 to $1,350,000.
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