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Haight Ashbury's Living Museum of the Peace Movement - A Peace Arts
Center and Gathering Place
The Red Victorian
is the only surviving turn of the 20th century hotel on Haight
Street.
It was built in
1904 as an upstairs country resort hotel. People came from San
Francisco by the Market Street cable car to take in the
country air in the newly developed Golden Gate Park. When the
Red Victorian was built, the Conservatory and the first
children's public playground were already in the Park.
In 1967, the Summer
of Love swept through the Haight-Ashbury District. The Red
Victorian was in the center of it all - in the forefront of
the Peace Movement, the Ecology Movement, and the Social
Justice Movement. Today it stands as a hospitality center for
people who work and believe in taking care of the Planet and
each other.
Sami Sunchild
came in 1977 and dedicated herself to preserving the historic
landmark Red Victorian as a Living Museum, where people of the
neighborhood and from all over the world find hospitality and
friendship.
The 18 upstairs
guest rooms of the
Red Victorian Bed and Breakfast commemorate the Summer of Love and Golden Gate
Park. The Red Victorian is world famous and popular with
educators, media people, artists, ecology-oriented and
peace-oriented thinkers and world travelers. |
