Forest Hill, San Francisco, California

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Stairway into Forest Hill from Pacheco Street and Dewey Boulevard up to Castenada Avenue

Forest Hill is an affluent neighborhood in San Francisco, California. It is located near the middle of the city, north-east of West Portal, south of the Inner Sunset and north of Dewey Boulevard. Construction on the neighborhood began in 1912, on land originally owned by Adolph Sutro that was purchased from his heirs by a private firm. Streets in Forest Hill were not built to city standards, and not maintained by the city until 1978. [1]

The area south of Dewey Boulevard is known as Laguna Honda or Forest Hill Extension. The name Laguna Honda means "Deep Lagoon" in the Spanish language, presumably referring to the Laguna Honda Reservoir, at the intersection of Laguna Honda Boulevard and Clarendon Avenue.

Laguna Honda Hospital and the Muni Metro Forest Hill Station are located between Forest Hill and Laguna Honda, near the intersection of Laguna Honda Boulevard and Dewey Boulevard. School of the Arts high school is on Portola Drive near Woodside Avenue, in the south-eastern corner of Laguna Honda. As the name implies, landscaping throughout Forest Hill is unusually lush for San Francisco: Magellan Avenue's elms make it one of the few streets in the city with a true tree canopy. Several homes and a community clubhouse designed by celebrated California Arts and Crafts Movement architect Bernard Maybeck add to the picturesque, rustic quality of the neighborhood.

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Although affluent, some gangs are beginning to see the edges of forest hill. Graffiti is becoming more and more prevalent, mostly done by people living outside of the neigorborhood.