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Judah and 9th Avenue is a light rail stop on the Muni Metro N Judah line, located in the Sunset District neighborhood of San Francisco, California. The station opened with the N Judah line on October 21, 1928. The station has two side platforms in the middle of Judah Street (traffic islands) where passengers
By the 1870s it became apparent that San Francisco was in dire need of a federal building to house the federal courts and the post office that were located in various downtown buildings. In 1887 a commission delegated to select a site reported that the $350,000 allocated by the U.S. Congress was insufficient and the sum was raised to $1,250,000.
[9] [10] [11] While once known as a finishing school where a school play made local headlines, Burke's in 2009 was cited in the Irish American newspaper the Herald that concluded, "[Burke's] innovative work of preparing young girls to attend college is an important chapter in San Francisco’s history." [12] [13]
San Francisco opened its first permanent hospital in 1857. [18] A hospital has been at Potrero Avenue since 1872, [19] when the city of San Francisco built a 400-bed hospital on Potrero, an all wood hospital, one of four emergency hospitals eventually built by 1904, Central, Harbor, Park and Potrero. [20]
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 city and to the Golden Gate Bridge.
A map on SFGate depicts the Chinatown, North Beach, and Telegraph Hill areas as bounded by Sacramento Street, Taylor Street, Bay Street, and the San Francisco Bay. [6]The neighborhood is bounded by Vallejo Street to the south, Sansome Street to the east, Francisco Street to the north and Powell Street and Columbus Avenue to the west, where the northwestern corner of Telegraph Hill overlaps ...
Fresco by Diego Riviera in the Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute SFDL 295 San Francisco Eagle Bar: 396–398 12th Street October 29, 2021 SFDL 296 Casa Sanchez Building: 2778 24th Street February 11, 2022 SFDL 297 Crocker National Bank Building: 1–25 Montgomery Street March 14, 2022 SFDL 298 "Allegory of California" fresco
9, 25 and 45 Scenic Way, built in 1914; architect, Willis Polk (1867–1924) The Hanson House at 126 27th Avenue, built in 1907; architect, John Charles Flugger (1865–1930) 50 Scenic Way, built in 1921 for Maude Strowbridge; architect, Julia Morgan (1872–1957) 60 McLaren Avenue and 455 Sea Cliff Avenue; architect, Albert L. Farr (1871–1947)