"This land is filled with pieces of our heritage," she said.
The rooms are so exceptional, and filled with $100 million worth of American heritage antiques.
Dating back to 1870, the Hughenden was once known as Martha's Boarding House, and is now a slightly eccentric heritage hotel, filled with knick-knacks and period touches by owners Susanne and Elizabeth Gervay.
The city council of this maritime city wants to create a shiny new heritage museum filled with plastic ships' prows and guides dressed up as olde-worlde dockside prostitutes.
Just north of Malabar Hill, the areas of Breach Candy on the seafront and Carmichael Road in Cumballa Hill, a heritage neighbourhood filled with low-rise bungalows and lush landscaping, are both very popular.
Bishop Daily talked of the church pews, once filled with families of Irish and Italian heritage, now crammed with people from Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and other parts of the West Indies, and from Poland and Korea.
In fact, Maria had the physical outline and all the emotional attributes of Williams' mother, Edwina, who was also petite, domineering, strong-willed, and filled with a nostalgia for a vanished aristocratic heritage.
For some activists, like Columbia resident John Holmes, the irony of white supremacists touting the flag, after a month filled with southerners proudly defending its place in their heritage, did not go unnoticed.
She moved to New York City in the 1990's and has collaborated with downtown musicians, reimagining her Romanian heritage with a voice that is filled with drama.
