Filbert Steps
1870
Vernacular
landscape
Not a designed landscape in any conventional sense, the Filbert Steps descend the east face of Telegraph Hill through a residents-maintained garden of roses, fuchsias, and towering trees that has no parallel in American urbanism. Grace…
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- 1949-1982
Grace Marchant moved in beside the steps in 1949, cleared the refuse tipped down the slope and planted the hillside, tending the garden as public open space until her death in 1982.
Grace Marchant
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