Marin Neighborhoods- San Anselmo Part 2

This is Part 2 of my Marin Neighborhoods series about San Anselmo. (View San Anselmo Part 1)

Making sense of the different San Anselmo neighborhoods is not all that easy. The neighborhood names can change depending on who you are talking to, how long they have lived in San Anselmo and how old they are! Downtown, Sleepy Hollow, Barber Tract? What do they all mean.

Barber Tract- The southeast corner of San Anselmo (Barber avenue, east of Sir Francis Drake), on the Winship Park border.
Calumet Park- West of downtown from Calumet to Saunders. This charming area is in the flats of San Anselmo and features homes built in the 1940s and 50s.
Downtown- The downtown neighborhoods feature small, closely built San Anselmo homes around San Anselmo Avenue, the shopping and dining hub of San Anselmo.
Hawthorne Hills- Neighborhood west of Butterfield to Suffield. It was annexed into San Anselmo in 1929.
Morningside-Development began in 1924 in this bungalow style neighborhood north of Sir Francis Drake.
Seminary- On the Ross/San Anselmo border, the Seminary neighborhood surrounds the San Francisco Theological Seminary. This highly sought after area features beautiful tree lined streets and pretty San Anselmo homes. It is within close proximity to downtown San Anselmo.
Sleepy Hollow – Development began in the neighborhood in the early 1940s when sales began on 141 one acre residential lots. Situated in a pretty valley, this neighborhood features a variety of housing styles from ranch style homes to a small Eichler subdivision. It is a large neighborhood with a homeowners association.
Sunnyside- San Anselmo’s first subdivision. Lot sales in the neighborhood began in 1881. Located Near Bolinas Avenue, today this neighborhood is often referenced as the Seminary Area.
Yolanda Park- West of downtown. Off Center Street to Alder. Development in the neighborhood began around 1905.

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