The neighborhood is named after José de Jesús Noé, the last Mexican "alcalde" (mayor) of Yerba Buena (present day San Francisco), who owned what is now Noe Valley as part of his "Rancho San Miguel". Noé sold the land, later to be known as Noe Valley, to John Meirs Horner, a Mormon immigrant, in 1854. At this time the land was called Horner's Addition. The original Noé adobe house was located in the vicinity of the present day intersection of 23rd Street and Douglass Street. Along with nearby neighborhood Corona Heights, Noe Valley was the site of two quarries until 1914.