Pari Livermore and The Vallejo Stairway Garden at the Summit of Russian Hill in San Francisco
For many years, Pari and her husband, Putnam Livermore, worked on the planting and maintaining of the Vallejo Stairway Garden.
Pari received the Weaver’s Award in 2003 for the Best Garden View in the San Francisco Bay Area
In 2003 Pari received the Love and Appreciation Plaque for the Vallejo Stairway Garden Crest from the Russian Hill Neighbors
In 1990 Pari Livermor, Gail Glasser, and Carol Anne Rogers began to raise funds for beautification of the Vallejo Stairway at the top of Russian Hill. The stairway was barren, filled with litter and in great disrepair.
The trio banded together to encourage their neighbors to cleanup, plant and maintain the area in which they lived.
Together they developed Pari Livermore’s idea for a Mentor’s Lunch to help women honor their mentors as a fundraising tool. The nonprofit umbrella organization for the Mentor’s Lunch was the Russian Hill neighbors.
As President of the Old Russian Hill Association, Putnam Livermore took on the mission to block a 200-foot high rise building at the crest of Vallejo Street in San Francisco. With his time, effort and his own money, he lead his neighbors to develop a much smaller and more appropriate building for the space. The building, which was designed by Willis Polk and commissioned by Putnam’s grandfather, Horatio Putnam Livermore, now known as The Heritage, won an AIA Award for its design.
