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Location of San Francisco in California. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in San Francisco, California, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in an ...
On August 2, 2011, The Folger Building was purchased by the University of San Francisco, for almost $37 million. [3] This marked the return of the university's downtown roots. [ 4 ] It has no LEED certification, as is typical of buildings from its time, and has 83,500 square feet of rentable office space.
The Save San Francisco Bay Association was started by citizens outraged by the dramatic loss of the bay through dikes and landfills as well as pollution. By the 1960s, filling had reduced the bay from 680 square miles (1,800 km 2) to just 400 square miles (1,000 km 2) of highly contaminated water. [7]
Despite years of claims from city officials that adding new home inventory is a public policy goal, San Francisco has granted just 16 new home construction permits in 2024. This comes against a ...
The Bank of Italy Building National Historic Landmark plaque. This is a combined list of all national, state, and local landmarks and historic places in San Francisco, California. Some locations appear on multiple lists.
The firm of Goss and Munson, railroad contractors, built 6 miles (9.7 km) of railroad from Needham and their 35-car trains made 16 trips a day to Back Bay. [5] The filling of present-day Back Bay was completed by 1882; filling reached Kenmore Square in 1890, and finished in the Fens in 1900.
San Francisco Bay and the Golden Gate Bridge, looking southeast towards the City and East Bay. Alcatraz is the small islet in the upper-middle left. San Francisco Bay's profile changed dramatically in the late 19th century and again with the initiation of dredging by the US Army Corps of Engineers in the 20th century. Before about 1860, most ...
Breaking the Filibuster. The Huffington Post is tracking where Democratic senators stand on filibuster reform — specifically, the "talking filibuster," which would require senators to participate in debate in order to block legislation.