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  2. Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Selected historical image ...

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    Opening day for the short lived operation of Alan Pegler's #4472, The Flying Scotsman along San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf. Seen running on Jefferson St., Pegler is in the engineers seat and riding the tender is Joseph Silva, manager of the State Belt RR.

  3. List of National Historic Landmarks in California - Wikipedia

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    Flat-bottomed scow schooner that was built in 1891 and used in San Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. Now part of the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park. Official plaque located in the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Visitor Center, located at the corner of Hyde and Jefferson streets. 5: Angelus ...

  4. Portal : San Francisco Bay Area/Selected panorama/Archive

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    Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, ... and San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in background. image credit: Brocken Inaglory. 30 ... Images by John ...

  5. Pacific-Union Club - Wikipedia

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    The Pacific-Union Club is a social club located at 1000 California Street in San Francisco, California, in the Nob Hill neighborhood. It was founded in 1889, as a merger of two earlier clubs: the Pacific Club (founded 1852) and the Union Club (founded 1854). The clubhouse is the former Flood Mansion, built as a home for silver magnate James ...

  6. Palace of Fine Arts - Wikipedia

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    In 2003, the City of San Francisco along with the Maybeck Foundation created a public-private partnership to restore the Palace and by 2010 work was done to restore and seismically retrofit the dome, rotunda, colonnades, and lagoon. Within January 2013, the Exploratorium closed in preparation for its permanent move to the Embarcadero.

  7. In San Francisco’s Tony Pacific Heights, a Once-Sleepy ...

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    San Francisco firm Homework transforms a grand historic house in Pacific Heights into a home brimming with color and life for a young family.

  8. Oregon boundary dispute - Wikipedia

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    The Oregon Country/Columbia District stretched from 42°N to 54°40′N. The most heavily disputed portion is highlighted. The Oregon boundary dispute or the Oregon Question was a 19th-century territorial dispute over the political division of the Pacific Northwest of North America between several nations that had competing territorial and commercial aspirations in the region.

  9. James C. Flood Mansion - Wikipedia

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    Now home of the Pacific-Union Club, it was built in 1886 as the townhouse for James C. Flood, a 19th-century silver baron. It was the first brownstone building west of the Mississippi River, and the only mansion on Nob Hill to structurally survive the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire.