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Coordinates: 37°47′18″N122°24′21″W37.788315°N 122.405889°W. Morris Gift Shop interior. The V. C. Morris Gift Shop is located at 140 Maiden Lane in downtown San Francisco, California, United States, and was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1948. The store was used by Wright as a physical prototype, or proof of concept for the ...
The original Museum of Fine Arts building in Copley Square. The Museum of Fine Arts was founded in 1870 and was initially located on the top floor of the Boston Athenæum. Most of its initial collection came from the Athenæum's Art Gallery. [3] In 1876, the museum moved to a highly ornamented brick Gothic Revival building designed by John ...
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.
Originally developed by Sheldon Gordon (co-developer of The Forum Shops at Caesars and Beverly Center), the nine-story mall opened in October 1988 as San Francisco Shopping Centre with approximately 500,000 square feet (46,000 m 2) of space, the then-largest Nordstrom store (350,000 square feet (33,000 m 2)) on the top several floors, the first spiral escalator in the United States, and a ...
Flat-bottomed scow schooner built in 1891 to haul goods on and around San Francisco Bay and river delta areas. 5. Apollo (Storeship) Apollo (Storeship) May 16, 1991(#91000561) NW corner of Sacramento and Battery Sts.37°47′39″N122°24′02″W / 37.7942°N 122.4005°W / 37.7942; -122.4005 (Apollo (Storeship)) Financial District.
San Francisco store at 50 Grant Avenue, 1912 to 1948 San Francisco store on Union Square, 1948 to 1994 Former I. Magnin store in Oakland, California. In the early 1870s, Dutch-born Mary Ann Magnin and her husband Isaac Magnin left England and settled in San Francisco. Mary Ann opened a shop in 1876 selling lotions and high-end clothing for infants.
legionofhonor.famsf.org. The Legion of Honor, formally known as the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, is an art museum in San Francisco, California. Located in Lincoln Park, the Legion of Honor is a component of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, which also administers the de Young Museum. [ 1 ]
Macy's Union Square. Coordinates: 37.78702°N 122.40738°W. Signage on oldest part of the store, O'Farrell and Stockton. Macy's Union Square (the location of the Macy's department store chain located on San Francisco 's Union Square) is one of the retailer's largest and oldest locations, long the flagship of Macy's California, then Macy's West.