Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei whitianga - I te Hui-tanguru 1874, i whakatuhia e te SFAA te Kura Hoahoa o California, ka whakauruhia a Virgil Macey Williams hei kaiwhakahaere. Ko nga kaiwhakahaere i muri mai ko: Emil Carlsen (1887<unk>1889), Arthur Mathews (1890<unk>1906), Robert Howe Fletcher, Pedro Joseph de Lemos (1914<unk>1917), Lee Fritz Randolph (1917<unk>1941), me William Alexander Gaw (1941<unk>1945). I te tau 1893, ka neke te whare ki te whare rangatira o Mark Hopkins i Nob Hill, ma te whakamahi i te ingoa Mark Hopkins Institute of Art (mo te whare engari ehara i te Kura Hoahoa), ka hono atu ki te Whare Wananga o California. I te tau 1906, te ahi nui i muri i te ru
i whakangaromia te whare. I hangaia he whakakapi ngawari ake i roto i te tau kotahi, ma te whakamahi i te ingoa San Francisco Institute of Art.