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Telegraph Hill (elev. 285 ft (87 m)) is a hill and surrounding neighborhood in San Francisco, ... Coit Tower was built where the semaphore and telegraph once stood.
The Art Deco tower, built of unpainted reinforced concrete, was designed by architects Arthur Brown Jr. and Henry Temple Howard. ... Telegraph Hill, the tower's ...
Pioneer Park is a 4.89-acre (19,800 m 2) park crowning the top of Telegraph Hill in San Francisco.It was established in 1876 in celebration of the United States Centennial. Prior to establishment of the park, it was the site of the Marine Telegraph Stati
Several cities claim to have been built on seven hills. Seven of the city's most well-known hills, sometimes referred to collectively as the "Seven Hills of San Francisco," include Telegraph Hill, Nob Hill, Russian Hill, Rincon Hill, Twin Peaks, Mount Davidson and Lone Mountain [1] or Mount Sutro.
In the United States, the first optical telegraph was built by Jonathan Grout in 1804 but ceased operation in 1807. ... California is also named "Telegraph Hill", ...
This was the location of the longtime Telegraph Hill restaurant called Julius' Castle, which closed its doors in 2008 after operating for 84 years. [1] Closer shots of the exterior entrance and driveway were filmed on a studio lot, and scenes for the garden and backyard were filmed on the lawn of Coit Tower. The corner market seen in the film ...
As the city grew, the cove was filled. Over fifty years a large offshore seawall was built and the mudflats filled, creating what today is San Francisco's Financial District. The San Francisco Belt Railroad, a short line railroad for freight, ran along The Embarcadero; its former enginehouse has been preserved.
The house at 1254–1256 Montgomery Street is a historic house located in the Telegraph Hill neighborhood of San Francisco.Construction commenced in the early 1860s [partial first floor] and sits on a secondary summit of the hill, which was also the site of a windmill that burned in 1861.