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The Great 1906 Earthquake and Fire – Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco website; The Great 1906 Earthquake and Fire Archived August 27, 2011, at the Wayback Machine – Bancroft Library; Mark Twain and the San Francisco Earthquake – Shapell Manuscript Foundation; Several videos of the aftermath – Internet Archive
It is dedicated to the goddess Tin How or Mazu, the Divine Protector of seafarers, much honored by Chinese immigrants, especially arriving by ship, to San Francisco. The original building was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake, and it opened on the top floor of a four-story building at 125 Waverly Place in 1910.
Like many buildings in the area, it was destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, and the community worked together to rebuild it [1] at its original location, 520 Pine, near St. Mary's Square. [2] The Los Angeles branch of the Kong Chow Family Association and Temple was designed by architect Gilbert Leong [3] and opened in 1960. [4]
A section of San Francisco, looking east across Grant Avenue toward Yerba Buena Island, shows the ravages of the great earthquake that struck Wednesday, April 18, 1906.
[18]: 166 The Primary School was mentioned in an 1896 San Francisco Call article profiling the kindergarten at the First Chinese Baptist Church. [19] The building at 916 Clay was destroyed in the April 1906 earthquake and subsequent fire, and a temporary building was erected at Joice and Clay to continue education. [18]: 166
Franklin Hall, the committee's final venue. This Committee of Fifty, sometimes referred to as Committee of Safety, Citizens' Committee of Fifty or Relief and Restoration Committee of Law and Order, was called into existence by Mayor Eugene Schmitz during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
Philip P. Choy was born in San Francisco in 1926; his father was a paper son who emigrated to the United States using a resident's identity papers, and his mother was born in America, but returned to China in the wake of the 1906 earthquake. He served in the Army during World War II and attended college using the GI Bill, earning a degree in ...
1906: Despite the devastating destruction of San Francisco by an earthquake on April 18, the U.S. Courthouse and Post Office survives; 1910: Repairs of earthquake damage to the U.S. Courthouse and Post Office are completed; 1933–1934: A four-story wing, designed by San Francisco architect George Kelham, is constructed on the east side of building