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The bakery is recognized as the "oldest continually operating business in San Francisco." [1] [2] [3] It was established in 1849 by Isidore Boudin, son of a family of master bakers from Burgundy, France, by blending the sourdough prevalent among miners in the Gold Rush with French techniques. [4] Steven Giraudo, an artisan baker from Italy ...
This list of museums in the San Francisco Bay Area is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Northern tip of San Francisco Peninsula on U.S. 101: Presidio: 141: Pumping Station No. 2 San Francisco Fire Department Auxiliary Water Supply System: Pumping Station No. 2 San Francisco Fire Department Auxiliary Water Supply System
The first of the many new companies arose out of the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center near Carmel Valley, California, a group of monks derived from the San Francisco Zen Center (which owns Greens Restaurant) that began baking bread in 1963 and operated a bakery in San Francisco's Cole Valley from 1976 to 1992. A pastry shop, Just Desserts ...
In November 2001 the CHSA relocated and opened the Chinese Historical Society of America Museum and Learning Center in the Chinatown YWCA building. The National Trust for Historic Preservation awarded the CHSA its National Preservation Honor Award in 2004 for its work restoring and retrofitting the 1932 building, nicknamed the "Lantern on the ...
V.C. Morris Store, 140 Maiden Lane, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA - Images in the Library of Congress; V. C. Morris gift Shop at "Wright on the Web."; Wright as an educator / Aaron Green and Lloyd Wright - radio program produced by Bruce Rodde for Pacifica Radio, in which "Reese Palley describes how San Francisco hippies volunteered to help reconstruct Wright's V.C. Morris Gift Shop."
The Museum of the City of San Francisco is a nonprofit museum containing a collection of historic artifacts related to San Francisco. [1] It was founded by Gladys Hansen, who was the city archivist of San Francisco. The executive director is Richard Hansen, Gladys's son. [2]
F. W. Woolworth Building (San Antonio) San Antonio, Texas: 1921 [3] Famous for having peacefully desegregated its lunch counter alongside six others local stores of San Antonio on march 16 1960. [3] Will become part of the Alamo Mission historic site. [4] F. W. Woolworth Building (Renton, Washington) Renton, Washington