Noe Valley (San Francisco)

Noe Valley
Neighborhood
Noe Valley in 2013
Location within San Francisco
Noe Valley Location within Central San Francisco
Coordinates (24th St. & Noe St.): 37°45′05.2″N 122°25′54.7″W / 37.751444°N 122.431861°W / 37.751444; -122.431861Coordinates: 37°45′05.2″N 122°25′54.7″W / 37.751444°N 122.431861°W / 37.751444; -122.431861
Country	United States
State	California
City-county	San Francisco
Government
• Supervisor	Jeff Sheehy
• Assemblymember	David Chiu (D)
• State senator	Scott Wiener (D)
• U. S. rep.	Nancy Pelosi (D)
Area
• Total	0.911 sq mi (2.36 km2)
• Land	0.911 sq mi (2.36 km2)
Population (2013)
• Total	22,893
• Density	25,134/sq mi (9,704/km2)
Time zone	Pacific (UTC-8)
• Summer (DST)	PDT (UTC-7)
ZIP codes	94110, 94114, 94131
Area codes	415/628

Noe Valley (/ˈnoʊ.i/ NOH-ee) is an affluent neighborhood in the central part of San Francisco, California.

Roughly speaking, Noe Valley is bounded by 21st Street to the north, 30th Street to the south, Dolores Street to the east, and Grand View Avenue to the west. The Castro (Eureka Valley) is north of Noe Valley; the Mission District is east.

The neighborhood is named after José de Jesús Noé, the last Mexican alcalde (mayor) of Yerba Buena (present day San Francisco), who owned what is now Noe Valley as part of his Rancho San Miguel. Noé sold the land, later to be known as Noe Valley, to John Meirs Horner, a Mormon immigrant, in 1854. At this time the land was called Horner's Addition. The original Noé adobe house was located in the vicinity of the present day intersection of 23rd Street and Douglass Street. Along with nearby neighborhood Corona Heights, Noe Valley was the site of two quarries until 1914.

Noe Valley was primarily developed at the end of the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century, especially in the years just after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. As a result, the neighborhood contains many examples of the "classic" Victorian and Edwardian residential architecture for which San Francisco is famous. As a working-class neighborhood, Noe Valley houses were built in rows, with some of the efficient, low-cost homes being more ornate than others, depending on the owner's taste and finances. Today, Noe Valley has one of the highest concentration of row houses in San Francisco, with streets having three to four and sometimes as many as a dozen on the same side. However, few facades in such rows of houses remain unchanged since their creation in the late 19th and early 20th century.