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Mason & Hamlin is an American manufacturer of handcrafted grand and upright pianos, currently based in Haverhill, Massachusetts. Founded in 1854, it is one of two surviving American piano manufacturers from the "Golden Age" of pianos (the other being Steinway & Sons ), although some smaller piano manufacturers have since started in the United ...
Portola Drive is the extension of Market Street into the south and western portion of San Francisco; San Jose Avenue, a major commuter road, brings thousands of cars into San Francisco every day (aka the Bernal Cut) Van Ness Avenue acts as US 101 through the heart of San Francisco from the Central Freeway towards the northern section of the ...
Casebolt House is a historic residence in the Cow Hollow district of San Francisco, California, U.S.. [1] It is the oldest house in the neighborhood, built in c. 1865 . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is a San Francisco designated landmark since 1973.
The Curran Theatre, located at 445 Geary Street between Taylor and Mason Streets in the Theatre District of San Francisco, California opened in February 1922, and was named after its first owner, Homer Curran. As of 2014, the theater is owned by Carole Shorenstein Hays.
Sarah Dix Hamlin. In April 1896 Sarah Dix Hamlin purchased the Van Ness Seminary School at 1849 Jackson Street, San Francisco. [1] In 1898, the school was renamed Miss Hamlin's School for Girls. [2] In 1907, the school moved to a mansion at 2230 Pacific Avenue in San Francisco. [3] On August 25, 1923, Hamlin died after a short illness. [4]
The street names commemorate two early San Francisco leaders: pioneer and exchange banker Henry Haight, [8] and Munroe Ashbury, a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors from 1864 to 1870. [9] Both Haight and his nephew, as well as Ashbury, had a hand in the planning of the neighborhood and nearby Golden Gate Park at its inception.
Merl Harry Reagle (January 5, 1950 – August 22, 2015) was an American crossword constructor. [2] [3] For 30 years, he constructed a puzzle every Sunday for the San Francisco Chronicle (originally the San Francisco Examiner), which he syndicated to more than 50 Sunday newspapers, [4] including the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Seattle Times, The Plain ...
Beach and Mason station is a streetcar station in San Francisco, California, serving the San Francisco Municipal Railway's E Embarcadero and F Market & Wharves heritage railway lines. It is located on Beach Street at Mason Street. The station opened on March 4, 2000, with the streetcar's extension to Fisherman's Wharf. [2]