1080 HAIGHT at Baker, northeast corner. Three-story Queen Anne house built in 1896. Dining room had aquarium built in wall, attic used as tennis court, Romanesque arches on front porch.

1081 HAIGHT/1-3 BUENA VISTA EAST, across from 1080. Another Queen Anne, flatiron building with corner tower to south.

1 BAKER, northwest corner of Haight. 22-unit contemporary building, mock Victorian style, cheaply built.

15, 17, 19, 21 BAKER, off of Haight. Built in 1890, curious porch columns with silhouette patterns. Number 21 restored in 1977.

1100 BLOCK OF HAIGHT. Flat block was prime real estate in Victorian era.

1128 HAIGHT. Queen Anne built in 1891, now apartments, has a fine decorated cylindrical corner tower.

1132-34-36 HAIGHT. Three-flat Edwardian built about 1910 with semicircular bay windows

1144-46 HAIGHT. Pair of Queen Anne flats with another corner tower. Grid pattern worked out through porch hood, front door, transoms, porch paneling.

VIEW TO EAST. City, bay, Oakland, Contra Costa Mountains.

VIEW TO LEFT. White Transamerica Pyramid, Lafayette Park's treetops, slate-covered dome of Temple Sherith of 1905, green terraces of Alta Plaza with Angel Island behind, twin piers of Golden Gate Bridge, 1932 Gothic tower of Lone Mountain College (now part of University of San Francisco)

CHILDREN'S PLAY AREA. View grand twin-towered church in the distance with dome and square campanile which is Jesuit St. Ignatius on campus of University of San Francisco built in 1914.

VIEW BELOW THE PARK. Yellow brick and red-tiled roof of Tucson Revival facade of Third Church of Christ, Scientist designed in 1918. Band of trees is Golden Gate Park's panhandle.

TOMBSTONE GUTTERS, in park near Duboce and Buena Vista Aves., above tennis courts at park's northeastern end. Paved rain gutters are from abandoned old marble tombstones when all cemeteries moved out of city.

VIEW IN MIDDLE DISTANCE. Kezar Stadium built in 1925.

FLOYD SPRECKELS MANSION (1898), 737 Buena Vista West. Columned semicircular porch, marble stoop, tall iron gate. Sidewall has two curious round stained-glass windows framed by leaves, angels' heads. Now a bed-and-breakfast inn.

731 BUENA VISTA WEST. Elaborate front porch protective iron grille.

639 BUENA VISTA WEST, corner of Frederick. Two-story classic stucco building with elegant entrance.

635 BUENA VISTA WEST. Elegant French windows, fine cornice.

615 BUENA VISTA WEST. Shingled Tudor house with elaborate central bay

601 BUENA VISTA WEST. Queen Anne house with tower built in 1895. Band of ornament above second floor is scratchwork, kind of plaster-and-burlap composition that replaced carved wood in 1890s. Between houses is curious view of seemingly free-floating onion dome and copper chimneys added to the top of 1450 Masonic.

595-97 BUENA VISTA WEST, southeast corner of Java. Modern two-flat building designed about 1950.

VIEW, down Java St. Eucalyptus forest blanketing Mt.Sutro in the distance.

555 BUENA VISTA WEST. Typical large apartment house from 1930. Original lobby reminiscent of movie-palace architecture of the period.

1482 MASONIC. Shingled house has third floor that projects beyond the floor below in medieval style.

1450 MASONIC. Eastlake-Queen Anne with curious turret, modern stained-glass windows at second floor, copperwork panels replaced plastic scratchwork.

CASA MADRONA APARTMENTS, corner of Masonic and Frederick. Built around central court with large clump of banana trees. Entrances to right and left are silhouette copies of Mission campaniles complete with fake mission bells which mask lights.

1322-42 MASONIC (1891). Set on high bases that emphasize verticality.

1301 WALLER (1901). Corner house sits on dramatic base, has curved glass.

1307-09 WALLER. Built in 1901.

1315 WALLER (1896). Central medallion at second floor.

1321-23 WALLER (1896). "Improved" with stucco when Victorian was unfashionable.

1327-29 WALLER (1896).

1333-35 WALLER (1896). Restored in 1988 with new ornaments.

1265-67 MASONIC, on northwest corner of Masonic and Waller. Corner house on yellow brick base, three-quarter round bay window at corner, stained-glass window on first floor facade, windows are more horizontal than vertical. Dates from the late 1890s.

1200 BLOCK OF MASONIC. Prime lots on sunny side of Masonic developed in 1895-96. Eight Queen Anne houses with gables and towers.

1200 MASONIC, southeast corner at Haight. Mixed commercial and residential buildings.

1398 HAIGHT, northeast corner at Masonic. Mixed commercial and residential building. Drugstore became the Drog Cafe in 1967, then the Dish, one of the better eating places.

710 ASHBURY. Former Grateful Dead house. Original doors and "710" in stained glass in transom. The Dead were busted here on October 2, 1967.

704 TO 714 ASHBURY. Built about 1890. Very fine Queen Anne row, each facade has its particular variations.

715 ASHBURY. Conveniently enough was Haight-Ashbury Legal Organization.

525-501 ASHBURY. Row of three-story, two-flat, gable-roofed Queen Anne buildings designed about 1900.

1550-42 PAGE. Designed in 1891. Sun faces on the second floor.

HAIGHT-ASHBURY CHILDREN'S CENTER, 1101 Masonic. Wooden, Neo-classical building constructed in 1906. Now a nursery school for children from low-income families.

ST. AGNES RECTORY, 1025 Masonic. Elegant wooden box with facade modeled after a Greek temple. Originally St. Agnes Church.

401 ASHBURY. Lovely oval corner bay window with curved glass.

459 ASHBURY (1891). Lacy facade has beautiful porch hood, eye-catching spindle work and columns on second floor.

GOLDEN GATE PARK PANHANDLE. Landscaped in 1870s. Strip is one block by eight, adjoins main part of Golden Gate Park to west.

1705 OAK (1893).

1709 OAK (1890). Streamlined first floor, brick-arched entrance, upper section juts out with second-story window, third-story look-out-style gable window.

1711 OAK (1857).

1751 OAK (1896). One-story Queen Anne cottage on a raised basement.

1759 AND 1763 OAK (1891). Three-story buildings with swallow's nest stucco work in their gables.

McKINLEY MONUMENT, at head of Panhandle and Baker between Oak and Fell. Fifteen-foot-high bronze female figure, emblamatic of the Republic, extending a palm leaf in one hand, a sword in other, stands atop a ten-foot-high granite base with a bas-relief of McKinley.

400 CLAYTON, southeast corner at Oak. Neo-classicaly ornamented stucco-fronted former firehouse.

401-07 CLAYTON. Built 1894-1895. Varied stoops and porches.

409 CLAYTON (1893). Once called 409 house, reading and meditation room on first floor, psychiatric counseling on second floor, offices of the Journal of Psychdelic Drugs in the attic.

411 CLAYTON. Oval spindlework screen, basket of carved flowers, exuberant foliage in its gable.

1700 PAGE, northwest corner of Clayton and Page. Thirteen-unit apartment building. Peek through entrance gate for what can only be called punk architecture.

1727 PAGE. Robustly-ornamented Eastlake cottage on raised basement. Front door with incised wood panels and colored flash glass.

1726 PAGE. Sandpaper stucco panels, ugly yellow glass windows, heavy metal fire escape.

1768 PAGE. Modern building, generously-proportioned bay windows.

1762 PAGE (1895). Fake "colonial-style" mullions added to double-hung windows is inappropriate "East Coast antique."

1767 PAGE. Fine Edwardian house with round corner tower, generous porch, and suave detailing.

1777 PAGE (1894). Decorative plaster work and owls' heads.

500-06 COLE. Almost wildly expressive Queen Anne tucks four upper flats and two ground flats onto a corner lot. U-shaped front stairs, columns, redwood ornament. Unusual turret between two gables.

503-07 COLE (1899)

516 COLE (1899). Lacy facade, bay windows, handsome porch.

1600-14 HAIGHT. Three-story corner building may have originally been a hotel.

OLD SUPERBA THEATER, 1660 Haight (1910). Richly-molded Beaux-Arts facade is a welcome ornament to the street.

HAIGHT THEATER, corner of Haight and Cole. Focal point for much of the artistic ferment in the Haight during the hippie era.

636 COLE, between Haight and Waller. Manson family lived here.

PARK BRANCH PUBLIC LIBRARY, 1833 Page. Elegantly-proportioned light yellow library, terra cotta-framed entrance, large reading room, windows on all four sides. Web site

VIVID MURAL ON NEIGHBORHOOD BUILDING. Painted 1975-76. Dancers, masks, and musicians set against idyllic California landscape with a rainbow. Inscribed in the corner a most hippie motto: "Come together each in your own perceiving of your self."

1900-02 PAGE, northwest corner. Nine-unit building with both flats and apartments. First-floor windows and two side entrances and side bay distinguished by semi-circular designs.

1890 SHRADER, northeast corner. Fine ornament between second and third floors, intricate shingle work, swallow's nest stucco work.

1901 PAGE, southwest corner. Unusual small front and side yards. Original iron fence.

510 SCHRADER. Cottage on raised basement between two larger neighbors. Transoms have very fine stained-glass windows.

1748 HAIGHT. Former Masonic Lodge, now I-Beam, a popular rock club.

1779-83 HAIGHT (1893). Oldest intact building on the strip.

1677-81 HAIGHT (1904). Parisian-style building. Interior of flower shop is close to original.

1775 HAIGHT. Once the Diggers' free-crash pad.

1736 HAIGHT. Was I-Thou Coffee Shop. Once was Mouse Studios/Pacific Ocean Trading Co. where many psychedelic posters originated.

1701-05 HAIGHT, at Cole. On Cole St. side is 1969 mural, "Evolution Rainbow," restored in 1981 and 1983.

1635 HAIGHT, southwest corner at Belvedere. First Interstate Bank, built for German Savings Bank. Brown-veined marble counters and wainscoting. Golden Gate Park photos inside.

1660 HAIGHT. Facade of old Superba Theater built as a nickelodeon in 1911. Was a food store.

ALVORD LAKE, west of Haight and Stanyan. Small, cement-bottomed pond sheltered by tall cypresses and clumps of coast live oak.

ALVORD LAKE BRIDGE (1889). Pedestrian underpass, first reinforced-concrete bridge in U.S. Fake stalactites under bridge. National Civil Engineering Landmark.

McLAREN LODGE/PARK HEADQUARTERS, Fell and Stanyan (1896). Named after designer of park from 1887 till his death in 1943 at age 96. Enter through handsome oak door, obtain park map. Ask to see Park Commission's meeting room, lined with pigskin, oil portrait of John McLaren. In front is lofty Monterey Cypress known as "Uncle John McLaren's Christmas tree."

VIEW, JFK and Kezar. Glimpse down long meadow framed by tall trees. Along JFK, artfully-planned sequence of long vistas opens before you and closes as you move on.

CAMELLIA GARDENS, Conservatory Drive East. Planted in 1920, bloom from January through March.

FUCHSIA GARDEN, north of camellias. Begun about 1940, 350 varietes bloom from July to August and continue through October.

CONSERVATORY OF FLOWERS, west of gardens. Crown jewel of Victorian architecture, copy of London's Kew Gardens. Developed in 1880. Great central dome, orchid collection. Walk to east wing (to right), fantastic greenery. West wing, seasonal flowers. Two floral plaques front the building.

ARIZONA CACTUS GARDEN, east of Conservatory. Remains of what was once a splendid garden.

MARY CONNOLLY CHILDREN'S PLAYGROUND, near King Drive and 3rd Ave. Innovative play equipment, carousel.

THE GLADE, south of JFK, north of Middle Drive East. Small, seemingly primeval glade of prehistoric-looking fern trees, acanthus, banana trees.

JOHN McLAREN MEMORIAL RHODONDENDRON DELL, south of JFK. Twenty acres devoted to McLaren's favorite flower. He hated statues, but one was erected after his death. Stands in his tweeds, vested suit with bow tie and goatee, holds pine cone. As concession to his hatred of statuary, green bronze statue is on ground, not on a pedestal.

STATUE OF ROBERT BURNS, up the drive, nearly hidden. Placed in 1908. Scottish poet stands on eight-foot-high pedestal.

THOMAS STARR KING STATUE, well hidden in bushes at corner. Memorializes ecumenically-minded Unitarian minister who was one of the men chiefly responsible for keeping California in the Union during the Civil War. Eight-foot-high, heroic-size bronze stands on pink granite hase, one hand on a fasces, symbolic of the Union, and the other holding a book.

MUSIC CONCOURSE, off Tea Garden Drive. Formally-landscaped low depression designed for 1894 fair. English plane trees, three fountains, gravel floor.

APPLE (CIDER-?) PRESS MONUMENT, north side of Music Concourse. Bronze shows a nude male operating a press and a child at his feet.

ROMAN GLADIATOR, north side of Music Concourse. Dressed in cloak and helmet brandishing an upraised sword. Cast in 1881.

PADRE JUNIPERO SERRA STATUE, entering the Music Concourse. Founder of California missions. Shown striding forward, his cloak in agition, both hands raised, one holding up a cross.

FRANCIS SCOTT KEY MEMORIAL, eastern end of Music Concourse. Originally erected in 1887 and inspired by the Albert Memorial in London. Kay wrote the national anthem.

GROVE OF PALM TREES AND TWO SPHINXES, across from "Roman Gladiator." Concrete sphinxes replaced bronze ones that stood guard before an Egyptian-style museum from 1903 fair.

MUSIC PAVILION, western end (1899). Built of Colusa sandstone with trumpet-blowing nudes.

U.S. GRANT STATUE, somewhere.

CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, south side of Music Concourse. Founded in 1853. One of five top natural museums in the country. Aquarium and planetarium. Space and Earth Hall has an earthquake floor. Hall of Man. Wild California Hall. Time Hall. Whale Fountain in courtyard. Web site

SHAKESPEARE GARDEN, short stroll from Academy of Sciences. Two hundred flowers mentioned by the bard. Bronze-engraved panels with floral quotations.

M.H. DE YOUNG MEMORIAL MUSEUM, off Tea Garden Drive. Opened in 1919. Pool of Enchantment in front depicts a Native Boy on an island piping to two listening lions. Features American art. Fifteen new galleries. Web site

ASIAN ART MUSEUM, adjoins DeYoung museum. San Francisco's Asian treasure house. Avery Brundage collection of more than 10,000 sculptures, paintings, and ceramics. Web site

VIEW, visible to south from concourse. Sutro television tower is tallest structure in city at 980 feet. Candelabra configuration. Empire-waisted design is a handsome piece of utilitarian engineering.

JAPANESE TEA GARDEN, beyond De Young museum. Eastern half from 1894 fair, western section completed in 1916. Two-story Main Gate, 10½-foot bronze Buddha with the halo cast in 1790, small ponds, streams, flowering shrubs. Tea and cookies are served. Web site

HALL OF FLOWERS, near 9th and MLK (check official park map). Part of Strybing Arboretum.

STRYBING ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL GARDEN, off South Drive near 9th Ave. entrance to park or 9th Ave. and Lincoln. Built in 1937. Special gardens. Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture Gazebo. Web site

STOW LAKE. Fifteen-million-gallon reservoir built in 1895. Two bridges connect shore with Strawberry Hill.

STRAWBERRY HILL, use bridge on south side of lake. Bridge garnished with cyclopean boulders. Chinese Pavilion on shore of Strawberry Hill was gift from City of Taipei, shipped in 6,000 pieces and assembled in 1981. Dirt road corkscrews to top of hill (412 feet). Huntington Falls is on east side of hill. View of golden onion dome of Russian Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Holy Virgin on Geary St. is silhouette against the Golden Gate.

RAINBOW FALLS/PRAYERBOOK CROSS. Artificial waterfall built in 1930s. Atop bluff behind falls is cross that commemorates first prayer service in English language held on Pacific Coast conducted by Sir Francis Drake's chaplain.

LLOYD LAKE/PORTALS OF THE PAST. Reflected on Lloyd Lake's still surface are the six Ionic columns of the Portals of the Past. Once-framed entrance of the Towne residence atop Nob Hill. House was destroyed by 1906 fire. Portico re-erected here. City's only architectural monument to the catastrophe of 1906.

OLD SPEEDWAY/LINDLEY MEADOW, to left of JFK. Bicycle path of old Speedway leads to Golden Gate Park Stadium, originally the Polo Field, carved out of the park in 1906.

LINDLEY MEADOW, next up JFK. Many and varied uses.

GODDESS OF THE FOREST, across from Lindley Meadow. Totemic sculpture carved in 1939 from a single redwood log as an example of art in action. Crouching nude figure, bear in her lap, owl in her hands, eagle protects the back of her head.

SPRECKELS LAKE. Model-yacht pond completed in 1904.

SENIOR CENTER, at head of 37th Ave. Originally San Francisco Police Academy.

BUFFALO PADDOCK, southwest of Senior Center. Small herd of buffalo, an institution in the park since 1892.

CHAIN OF LAKES, between Chain of Lakes Drives East and West. Eleven islands only parts of the park not accessible. Each island originally landscaped differently.

EQUESTRIAN CENTER/TROTTING TRACK, west of road

RICHMOND-SUNSET SEWAGE TREATMENT AND WATER PUMPING SYSTEM, at intersection turn left short way down hill to an almost invisible road. Perpetual torch burns off poisonous gases.

MURPHY WINDMILL AND KEEPER'S HOUSE, outside sewage treatment plant. Restored windmill built in 1905. Small red-brick Colonial-style Keeper's House. Once one of the largest sail windmills in the world, 114 feet across, pumped 40,000 gallons of water per hour from an underground river.

BEACH CHALET, faces Great Highway at west end of park. Inside, a series of frescoes executed in 1936-37 covers all four walls of the ground floor bar. Series of figures surround front entrance.

DUTCH WINDMILL, visible to the north from chalet. Bladeless windmill built in 1903.

QUEEN WILHELMINA TULIP GARDEN, at base of windmill. Dutch Bulb Growers Association sends hundred of tulip bulbs each year to stock the garden.

GREAT HIGHWAY AND OCEAN BEACH. Stretches for three miles along the western (Pacific) side of the city. Beautiful beach for walking, running, or lying in the sun, but not for swimming.

SUTRO HEIGHTS PARK, across Great Highway from Cliff House. Victorian kiosk, terraced overlook on the summit, rock garden filled with blooming plants.

CLIFF HOUSE, 1066 Point Lobos Ave. Original built in 1863, now fifth building on the site. Lower dining room overlooks Seal Rocks. Barking marine mammals are actually sea lions. Web site

GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL RECREATION AREA VISITORS CENTER, two flights below Cliff House. Historic photographs of Cliff House and glass-roofed Sutro Baths. Baths closed in 1952, burned in 1955. Explore ruins. Web site

CAMERA OBSCURA, Cliff House. Housed in a building that resembles a camera. Built more than 40 years ago. Scenery glitters and undulates--like a living movie--across the plywood screen. Web site

SEAL ROCKS, foot of Point Lobos Ave. Usually inhabited by shore birds and a colony of stellar sea lions. On a clear day, the Farallon Islands some 30 miles distant are visible.

MUSEE MECANIQUE, adjacent to Cliff House. Collection of antique mechanical contrivances, including peep shows and nickelodeons, carries on tradition of arcade amusement. Web site