From K-QED. I'm Olivia Allen Price, host of Bay Curious. One thing I love about living in the San Francisco Bay Area is getting to meet the people from all over the world

who travel here for vacation.

They give me some perspective.

I may have seen the Golden Gate Bridge

a thousand times by now, but knowing other people

pay good money to hop on a plane and come see it, I don't know.

It helps me maintain some sort of reverence, stoke my sense of wonder.

But sometimes the tourists know something that I don't. They've come to see something I never

knew was there. Which brings me to one Castro landmark that few people know anything about, unless you're French, that is.

The famous Blue House.

All the French, who is the Mezond Blue, and all the French will go to the Mezon Blue.

That's San Francisco-based French tour guide Sylvie Walters.

She says, all the French know the Blue House, and all the French want to see the blue house.

Take a stroll by 3841 18th Street in San Francisco and you'll spot it, a pastel blue Victorian that, while lovely, looks like many others that line

this street. Except there's a throng of French tourists outside. We have never seen the mezond bleu. Today on the show, what makes the privately owned blue house in the Castro such a magnet

for people from France.

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Listener Helen Walker, who's based in Berkeley,

asked us if we could share the story of the Blue House.

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