Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
The following is a list of streets and alleys that are within or pass through San Francisco's Chinatown. [1] [2] [3] ... Lozier Street: 白話轉街 Bedford Place ...
Whittier was born in Vienna, Maine and travelled to San Francisco (via the Isthmus of Panama) in 1854. After arriving in San Francisco, Whittier formed several business ventures and at one point his firm was "the major west coast paint and white lead manufacturer, with extremely profitable side-lines in imported glass, mirrors, oils, etc." [3]
Prior to the 1906 earthquake, the address was an apartment building called The Cecil. [9] After the earthquake and resulting fire, it was rebuilt as a theater and known by many names over the years, including the Kamokila, Fack's II, [10] The Royal Hawaiian Theater, [11] The Bush Street Music Hall, The Balalaika Music Hall, The Troubadour North, [12] in 1970, finally becoming The Boarding ...
William Westerfeld, a German-born confectioner, arrived in San Francisco in the 1870s. By the 1880s, he had established a chain of bakeries. He hired local architect Henry Geilfuss [3] [4] to design for his family of six a 28-room mansion with an adjoining rose garden and carriage house. The house was constructed in 1889 at a cost of $9,985 ...
William Alexander Leidesdorff Jr. (1810 – May 18, 1848) was an Afro-Caribbean settler in California and one of the founders of the city that became San Francisco.A highly successful, enterprising businessman, he is thought to have been the first black millionaire in the United States.
Alemany, who in 1840 completed his studies in sacred theology in Rome at the College of St. Thomas, the future Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum, was consecrated Bishop of Monterey in California at Rome on June 30, 1850. He was transferred on July 29, 1853, to the See of San Francisco as its first archbishop. [4]
Arthur Brown Jr. (May 21, 1874—July 7, 1957) [1] was an American architect, based in San Francisco and designer of many of its landmarks. He is known for his work with John Bakewell Jr. as Bakewell and Brown, along with later works after the partnership dissolved in 1927.