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The '''Duboce Triangle''' is a neighborhood of [[San Francisco]], [[California]], located below [[Buena Vista Park]] and between the neighborhoods of the [[The Castro|Castro/Eureka Valley]], the [[Mission District]], and the [[Lower Haight]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Cerny |first=Susan Dinkelspiel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FkVQx6MWa8MC&pg=PA76 |title=An Architectural Guidebook to San Francisco and the Bay Area |date=2007 |publisher=Gibbs Smith |isbn=978-1-58685-432-4 |pages=76 |language=en}}</ref>

The Duboce Triangle is served by [[Muni Metro]] and buses. Because of its location east of [[Buena Vista Heights]] and [[Twin Peaks (San Francisco)|Twin Peaks]], the area sees less fog than many places in San Francisco.{{Citation needed|date=December 2021}}

== Location ==
According to the 2010 neighborhoods map of the San Francisco Association of Realtors (SFAR), Duboce Triangle is bordered by [[Market Street (San Francisco)|Market Street]] on its southeastern side, by Castro Street to the West and by Duboce Avenue to the North.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Realtor Neighborhoods {{!}} DataSF {{!}} City and County of San Francisco|url=https://data.sfgov.org/Geographic-Locations-and-Boundaries/Realtor-Neighborhoods/5gzd-g9ns|access-date=2021-12-13|website=San Francisco Data|language=en}}</ref> A 2006 definition by the city mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services puts the neighborhood's northern boundary further north at Waller Street (thereby including [[Duboce Park]]), while still excluding the [[San Francisco Mint]] building near Market Street.<ref>{{Cite web|title=SF Find Neighborhoods {{!}} DataSF {{!}} City and County of San Francisco|url=https://data.sfgov.org/Geographic-Locations-and-Boundaries/SF-Find-Neighborhoods/pty2-tcw4|access-date=2021-12-13|website=San Francisco Data|language=en}}</ref>

== History ==
The name Duboce originates from [[Victor Duboce]], a lieutenant colonel of the First California Volunteer Infantry regiment in the Philippines during the [[Spanish–American War]].<ref name=":02">{{Cite news |last=Dudley |first=Andrew |date=November 11, 2014 |title=The Legend Of Victor Duboce |work=Hoodline |url=http://hoodline.com/2014/11/the-legend-of-victor-duboce}}</ref>

Many of the houses in the neighborhood are 1906 flats in the [[classic revival]] style, with the earliest house dating from the 1870s (such as the house at 22 Beaver Street built in 1876).<ref name=":0" /> A Victorian apartment building at the Northern side of 400 Duboce Avenue which survived the 1906 earthquake, has been described as the country's largest wooden structure to the West of the Mississippi.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Graff |first=Amy |date=2019-06-21 |title=Meet the woman who has painted 400 of San Francisco's Victorians |url=https://www.sfgate.com/realestate/article/If-you-ve-ever-wonderinged-14006044.php |access-date=2021-12-13 |website=[[SFGATE]] |language=en-US}}</ref>

From 1970 to 1984, the neighborhood was home to [[Scott's Pit]], the first [[Lesbian bar|lesbian]] [[biker bar]] in the city.<ref name=":03">{{Cite web |title=The Gayest Buildings in America most important to LGBT History |url=https://www.californiahomedesign.com/house-tours/gayest-buildings-america/slide/5728 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140314045448/https://www.californiahomedesign.com/house-tours/gayest-buildings-america/slide/5728 |archive-date=March 14, 2014 |website=California Home + Design |publisher=Chronicle Books}}</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.dtna.org/ Duboce Triangle Neighborhood Association]

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