Washington+Square+Park

WASHINGTON SQUARE PARK

Washington Square Park is a park in northeast San Francisco. It is a green space in one of the most densely populated areas of San Francisco. One of the first things we saw when we got there were dancing and fencing classes. We asked a woman what she knew about Washington Square Park and she said that the Italians first owned it. We noticed a large church was being renovated across the street. Washington Square Park was first a cemetery, then a cow pasture, and later a refugee camp after the 1906 earthquake.