Fairy Houses And A Very Green Waterfall

Bay Curious

KQED

History, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.9 • 999 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

A Bay Area artist in Richmond has been stealthily building and placing fairy houses around his neighborhood. His creations bring ‘endless fun and fascination’ to the East Bay town. And, across the Bay Bridge, a waterfall in Golden Gate Park is sometimes an "alarming shade of green." What's going on with the water there? Additional Reading Point Richmond's Fairy Houses: Miniature Worlds of Whimsy Ever Wondered Why Some Water in Golden Gate Park is Bright Green? Join us for trivia on April 1st! Sign up for our newsletter Enter our Sierra Nevada Brewing Company monthly trivia contest Read the transcript for this episode. Your support makes KQED podcasts possible. You can show your love by going to https://kqed.org/donate/podcasts This story was reported by Pauline Bartolone and Chris Hambrick. Bay Curious is made by Olivia Allen-Price, Katrina Schwartz and Christopher Beale. Additional support from Jen Chien, Katie Sprenger, Maha Sanad, Alana Walker, Holly Kernan and the whole KQED family.

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0:00.0	From KQED.
0:03.3	Hey everyone, I'm Olivia Allen Price, and this is Bay Curious, the show that answers listener questions about the San Francisco Bay Area.
0:11.9	Today's show takes us to the city of Richmond, where something magical is happening within the small Bayside neighborhood of Point Richmond.
0:20.5	That's where a Bay Curious listener, who also happens to be a KQED employee, Laura Benitez, lives.
0:28.4	She was on a stroll with her toddler, passing the local fire station when...
0:32.9	Next to the fire station, there was a tiny fairy house fire station.
0:39.7	And it was just the cutest thing,
0:45.0	and she played with it for like half an hour. And I then kind of heard from other people in the neighborhood that there was a whole series of fairy houses. Sprinkled all up and down Washington
0:50.6	Street, you'll find more miniature homes and the public services to support them.
0:55.5	They're all brimming with the personality of their imaginary fairy inhabitants and highly detailed.
1:02.6	The wee buildings have been dubbed Little Point Richmond, and Laura loves them.
1:08.1	So I appreciate all things whimsical and artistic and those little things that make life more
1:13.9	meaningful, you know.
1:15.0	But she wants to know, where did this little fairy amusement park come from?
1:19.8	Who was behind it?
1:24.6	Today on the show, we explore some of the hidden treasures you've been wondering about as you explore your neighborhoods.
1:32.0	We'll start in the tucked away community of Point Richmond in the East Bay,
1:36.2	and then make our way to Golden Gate Park in San Francisco to visit a very green waterfall.
1:43.4	Stay with us.
1:46.5	Support for Bay Curious is brought to you by Sierra Nevada Brewing Company.
1:50.9	Still family owned, operated, and argued over.
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