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Portsmouth Square (traditional Chinese: 花園角; simplified Chinese: 花园角; pinyin: Huāyuán jiǎo; Jyutping: Faa 1 jyun 4 Gok 3), formerly known as Portsmouth Plaza, [1] and originally known as Plaza de Yerba Buena, [2] [3] or simply La Plaza, [4] is a one-block plaza (57,516 sq ft (5,343.4 m 2)) in Chinatown, San Francisco, California ...
A plaque map of San Francisco's Chinatown. Current name Former name Official Chinese name/Alternate Chinese name Adele Court: 亞打利巷 Beckett Street:
The site is located near the Saint Mary's Square, at the crossroads of San Francisco Chinatown and the Financial District. [3] The statue "Comfort Women" Column of Strength , by sculptor Steven Whyte , is one of nine and the first sculpture placed in a major U.S. city to commemorate the comfort women.
Park signage, 2013. Designed in 1957 by Robert Royston the square is a rooftop park located on the top level of a parking garage in San Francisco's Chinatown neighborhood. At the time, rooftop gardens were promoted in the city by real estate developers as a means to maximize buildable areas, and were most often sited on two‐story, above‐ground parking structures. being one of the first ...
In response, the Chinese Six Companies convened many community organizations together, from which was founded the Chinese War Relief Association, to raise funds from the Chinatown communities throughout the U.S. to aid civilians trapped by the war in China. In San Francisco's Chinatown, a popular means to raise money for war relief was through ...
Sun Yat-sen is an outdoor sculpture depicting the Chinese physician, writer, and philosopher of the same name by Beniamino Bufano, installed in San Francisco's Saint Mary's Square, in 1937, in the U.S. state of California. [1] [2]
The Chinese pavilion at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco featured a temporary paifang in 1915. [2] A temporary "Imperial Dragon Gate" was erected across Grant at Clay for the 1941 Rice Bowl Party, a celebration and parade to raise funds for war relief in China.
Western terminus of the Lincoln Highway-San Francisco. The land on which Lincoln Park stands was the city-owned Golden Gate Cemetery, established in 1868. [1] [2] It held about 10,000 remains and included a Chinese burial ground and a potter's field. [1] In 1902, golf enthusiasts laid out a three-hole course on part of the land. In 1909, the ...