The Red Victorian

The Red Victorian is a historic hotel and bed & breakfast located in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district, two blocks from Golden Gate Park and well served by public transit.

The hotel was constructed in 1904 as the Jefferson Hotel. In 1967 during the Summer of Love it was called the Jeffrey-Haight. In 1977, Dr. Sami Sunchild, environmental artist and social activist, acquired the building, painted the Victorian facade red plus 9 other trim colors, and named it the "Red Victorian". She created a business founded on love and honoring the best of the ideals that were birthed on that street and in that building, namely the peace movement, the environmental (or "green") movement, the cooperative community movement, and the social justice movement.

"The Red Vic" has been lovingly decorated and restored celebrating these themes and has hosted over 200,000 guests from every continent, as well as people from across the street and many residents of the Bay Area. The room designs are each unique and pictured on the web site. The Red Vic is now international headquarters for Peaceful World Travel. Upstairs are the 18 famed guest rooms; on street level below are the Peace Center, Peace Arts Gallery and Gift Shop and Red Vic Peace Cafe. Breakfast at the Red Vic is included in the room price and typically has a remarkable group of people from many countries.

In the year 2007 Dr Sami Sunchild is creating Peaceful World Foundation, a non-profit "Living Museum" where people a hundred years in the future will be able to participate in and re-experience a living model of the kind of world we want for everybody.

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Red Vic Peace Cafe

External links

* http://www.redvic.com
* http://www.peacefulworldfoundation.org
* http://www.peacearts.com