The eclectic nature of the area’s architecture continues on the northern end of the residential area.
There was a Jewish population in the neighborhood for a while, as this former synagogue attests.
Folsom Avenue is dominated by the gigantic Liggett-Meyers Tobacco Factory, which is gigantic, to be blunt. It stretches the entire length of the neighborhood.
What’s even more amazing about the size of the Ligget-Meyers plant is that there used to be another block-long building along Folsom. You can still see the foundation, including the street-level windows in the foundation walls, along Folsom. There is even a band of red terra cotta blocks atop the foundation. I suspect there may have been one or two other largish buildings in the complex, too.
Indeed, I saw those foundations and forgot to mention them. I suspect they were part of the factory.