Balboa Terrace, San Francisco

The Gregangelo Museum is a private home made up of installation art located in a Mediterranean-style house originally built in the early 1920s in the St. Francis Wood district of San Francisco. The house was converted into an art project during the 1980s. Though most of the thirty-three rooms rooms in the house have been significantly remodeled, the original 1920s architecture was intentionally salvaged. The founder, Gregangelo Herrera, owns Gregangelo’s Velocity Arts and Entertainment, a circus troupe and arts and entertainment company which uses the Gregangelo Museum as a company headquarters. The Gregangelo Museum has been cited in interior design books, television networks, and editorial pages such as The Bold Italic and the San Francisco Chronicle. Roadtrippers Magazine, and the WeirdHomes Tour. Incredibly, it has been selected in 2020 Travelers’ choice by TripAdvisor as #6 of 816 things to do in San Francisco. In 2012, The Gregangelo Museum was dubbed one of a few "Home Strange Homes" by HGTV and has since featured on Voltage TV's "World's Weirdest Homes" and Netflix's Amazing Interiors. The Gregangelo Museum was also recently featured in The Mercury News as one of the “12 coolest bay area things you didn’t know you could do” as well as being included in “Secret San Francisco: A Guide to the Weird, the Wonderful, and the Obscure."Egyptian and Middle Eastern themed installations, mosaics, and paintings are some of the main features of the museum. The Gregangelo Museum generates its revenue by offering tours of the home to the general public. The tour starts outside of the house and gradually makes its way through the themed rooms and up onto the second floor. The second floor is a hidden second half of the museum called The Labyrinth, which is a series of maze-like crawl spaces that lead to more themed rooms.During the COVID-19 pandemic, Gregangelo switched to virtual tours, private events, outdoor immersive art tours, and immersive theatre productions guided by local SF artists. All experiences are COVID compliant to ensure safety. The immersive outdoor experience “The Riddle of the Sphinx” is designed for small groups who are sheltering in place together. This tour is touch-free and is not mixed with other guests. Guests listen to mesmerizing stories and solve fun riddles while exploring the beautiful gardens at the perimeters of the Gregangelo Museum.The captivating indoor experience “A Quickie” requires a Covid-19 vaccination card or QR code and ID for entrance. Masks are required at all times inside this private home, designed for curious travelers and locals who are looking for an authentic San Francisco experience. Guests enjoy a fast-paced exploration through six (out of thirty-three) fascinating installations: photo ops and fun interactions in each room. Learn secret insights about some works of art and how this most unlikely museum came to be.The immersive theater experiences consist of live performers in elaborate costumes, including dancers, singers, aerialists, and live animals. These seasonal experiences were featured by Localish and Kofy TV20. For example, Phantasma and House of Weird were Halloween and haunted house theme experiences. Solstice was a Christmas theme show during the Holidays in 2020. After that, the 2021 spring season inspired Metamorphosis, which included flowers, plants, and animals. The first 2022 experience is Dreams of Desire, a love, romance, and sensuality experience to celebrate Valentine’s Day and spring. All experiences are for small groups. Showing proof of vaccination and booster are required at the door before attending the performance. Masks are required during the events.They have enhanced safety measures to encourage safer socializing while guests continue to make memories. They also offer private events for families, friends, and corporations.The Gregangelo Museum is a storyboard to the Velocity Circus shows. Each room is described as an entirely different universe by those who visit the home. Each room is also called a "portal," resonating for many as a sort of C. S. Lewis novel reanimated. The philosophy of the house follows that each portal will bring visitors into a different existence, universe, and head-space. The house invites existentialism and as one blogger wrote, "Gregangelo wished the secrets of the universe could be revealed."The Gregangelo Museum's mosaic was described by JoAnn Lockvot as "unprecedented and untraditional." The house's decor mixes the humorous with the spiritual. Artist True made most of the mosaic in the house, a mix of the bubbles, swirling galaxies, and colorful particles. Gregangelo Herrera uses the projects in the house to employ Velocity Circus artists when they are not training for a show. The purpose of the house is not to be viewed as a finished product, but as a reflection of the artists' ongoing journey.

Ocean and San Leandro is a light rail stop on the Muni Metro K Ingleside line, located between the Balboa Terrace and Ingleside Terrace neighborhoods of San Francisco, California. It originally opened around 1896 on the United Railroads |12 line; K Ingleside service began in 1919. The stop consists of two side platforms, with the eastbound (outbound) platform located on Ocean Avenue west of the intersection with San Leandro Way, and vice versa.

Ocean and Aptos is a light rail stop on the Muni Metro K Ingleside line, located between the Balboa Terrace and Ingleside Terrace neighborhoods of San Francisco, California. The stop consists of two side platforms, with the eastbound (outbound) platform located on Ocean Avenue west of the intersection with Aptos Avenue, and vice versa. It originally opened around 1896 on the United Railroads 12 line; K Ingleside service began in 1919.

Junipero Serra and Ocean is a light rail stop on the Muni Metro K Ingleside line, located in the St. Francis Wood neighborhood of San Francisco, California. It originally opened around 1896 on the United Railroads 12 line; K Ingleside service began in 1919.

St. Francis Wood is a residential neighborhood located in southwestern San Francisco, California, south of the West Portal neighborhood and west of Mount Davidson. St. Francis Wood had a population of 1,228 and a median household income of $144,719 in 2013. Characterized by family homes on spacious lots (by San Francisco standards), St. Francis Wood has no visible businesses and has a correspondingly low profile compared to similar wealthy neighborhoods such as the Marina District and Pacific Heights. St. Francis Wood is one of eight master-planned residence parks in San Francisco.

St. Francis Circle is a light rail stop on the Muni Metro K Ingleside and M Ocean View lines, located in the St. Francis Wood neighborhood of San Francisco, California. It opened around 1907 when the United Railroads (URR) expanded its Ocean Avenue line west to Ocean Beach; Muni service followed with the K in 1918 and the M in 1925.

The Cecil F. Poole House, also known as the Joseph Leonard House, is a historic residence in Ingleside Terraces neighborhood of San Francisco, California, United States. During the Poole's residency in the home in 1958, an incident of cross-burning occurred. It is sometimes written as Joseph Leonard/Cecil F. Poole House. It is listed as a San Francisco Designated Landmark since 2000. It is a private residence, and not open to the public.

Ocean and Westgate (inbound) and Ocean and Cerritos (outbound) are a pair of one-way light rail stops on the Muni Metro K Ingleside line, located between the Mount Davidson and Ingleside Terrace neighborhoods of San Francisco, California. The stops consist of one side platform each, with the eastbound (outbound) platform located on Ocean Avenue west of the intersection with Westgate Drive and Cerritos Avenue, and vice versa. They originally opened around 1896 on the United Railroads 12 line; K Ingleside service began in 1919.

Right Of Way/Ocean is a light rail stop on the Muni Metro M Ocean View line, located in the Merced Manor neighborhood of San Francisco, California. It opened in 1925 with the first phase of the line. The station is located where the line's private right-of-way crosses Ocean Avenue, with narrow side platforms located on the near side of the grade crossing. The northbound platform is across the tracks from the southbound platform of Right Of Way/Eucalyptus station.

Mercy High School, San Francisco was a Catholic all-girls college-preparatory high school located in San Francisco, California. It is a part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco, and is sponsored by the Sisters of Mercy in Dublin, Ireland. The campus is located on 19th Avenue, near San Francisco State University, and includes a multipurpose pavilion, which was built and dedicated to Catherine McAuley in 2001. The school permanently closed in the summer of 2020.

Right Of Way/Eucalyptus is a light rail stop on the Muni Metro M Ocean View line, located in the Merced Manor neighborhood of San Francisco, California. It opened in 1925 with the first phase of the line. The station is located where the line's private right-of-way crosses Eucalyptus Drive, with narrow side platforms located on the near side of the grade crossing. The southbound platform is across the tracks from the northbound platform of Right Of Way/Ocean station.

Ingleside Terraces is an affluent residential neighborhood of approximately 750 detached homes built at the former location of the Ingleside Racetrack in the southwestern part of San Francisco. It is adjacent to the Balboa Terrace, Ingleside, Merced Heights and Lakeside neighborhoods, and is bordered by Ocean Avenue to the north, Ashton Avenue to the east, Holloway Avenue to the south and Junipero Serra Boulevard to the west. The main local event that occurs is the Annual Sundial Park Picnic, in which the local residents host bicycle, chariot, and wagon racing. There is a large sundial located on Entrada Court, surrounded by the oval-shaped Urbano Drive, which was once a horse race track. Ingleside Terraces is one of nine master-planned residence parks in San Francisco.In 1910, Joseph A. Leonard's Urban Realty Improvement Company bought the track and set about turning the land into a residence park. By 1912, Ingleside Terraces had opened, with Urbano Drive paved on the loop of the old racetrack. Like other suburban developments built in the United States at the time, Ingleside Terraces was explicitly designed to be a segregated whites-only neighborhood, and written into the property deed was a section reading: "That no person of African, Japanese, Chinese, or of any Mongolian descent shall be allowed to purchase, own, lease, or occupy said real property or any part thereof." The 1948 Supreme Court case Shelley v. Kraemer declared racial restrictions were illegal and unenforceable in courts, though the restrictions continued to be enforced socially. In 1957, assistant district attorney Cecil F. Poole moved into the neighborhood with his family as the first non-white residents. The following year, on June 5, 1958, other neighborhood residents burned a cross on the front lawn of the Pooles' house.