Ingleside terraces
Subtitle: San Francisco racetrack to residence park
By: Woody LaBounty
Publisher: Outside Lands Media
Published: 2012
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780982346112
Subjects: Discrimination in housing; Social life and customs; Housing; Pictorial works; History
Notes: "On November 28, 1895 the Ingleside Racetrack opened in the foggy reaches of southwestern San Francisco as the most opulent horse racing venue west of the Mississippi River. For a decade, Ingleside played host not only to thoroughbreds, but also to bicyclists and auto racing pioneers in search of speed records. The track became a Progressive Era battleground between gambling "turf men" and civic reformers before serving as a refugee camp for the city's most vulnerable after the 1906 Earthquake and Fire. In the early 1910s Joseph A. Leonard's Urban Realty Improvment Company purchased the track to create Ingliside Terrraces, on of San Francisco's first master-planned residence parks. Ingleside Terraces featured fine architecture, decorative landscape elements and deed restrictions that defined the placement, cost, and use of buildings while also banning ocupancy or owenership by an "person of African, Japanese, Chinese, or of Any Mongolian descent"." Over the next hundred years, Leonard's blueprint for the "ideal home park" would be challlenged, defended and trandsormed by changing definitions of social and civic beatuy, progress and justice...Woody LaBounty again unearths colorful, complex, and fascinating stories beneath the quiet streets of a San Francisco neighborhood"--Dust jacket flap.

Includes bibliographical references (p.153-156).