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Rincon Center is a complex of shops, restaurants, offices, and apartments in the South of Market neighborhood of Downtown San Francisco, California.It includes two buildings, one of which is the former Rincon Annex post office building, completed in 1940.
[3] [4] It was Amtrak's San Francisco terminal, with buses connecting to trains at Oakland and Emeryville, [2] until March 2015, when this moved to the Temporary TransBay Terminal pending completion of the Transbay Transit Center. [5] The Ferry Station Post Office Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 1 ...
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.
The mural paintings by Anton Refregier in the Rincon Annex of the San Francisco Post Office, San Francisco, California (M.A. thesis). Arizona State University. Gelber, Steven M. (1979). "Working to Prosperity: California's New Deal Murals". California History. 58 (2). California Historical Society: 98– 127. doi:10.2307/25157905.
The Shoreline of San Francisco in 1853. North Point is geographic feature and, formerly, a cape on the northeast side of San Francisco, California.Historically, the location of the cape was at the foot of Loma Alta (now Telegraph Hill), approximately at what is now the intersection of Bay and Kearny Streets, just southwest of Pier 35.
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 ...
Hyde Street Pier, San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, 2905 Hyde Street: Fisherman's Wharf: Flat-bottomed scow schooner built in 1891 to haul goods on and around San Francisco Bay and river delta areas. 5: Apollo
In 2003, the building reopened after the restoration of major public spaces, as well as renovations for new uses: it has a re-dedicated ferry terminal, an upscale gourmet marketplace in the former baggage area featuring local goods, and upper floors adapted for office use. San Francisco Bay Ferry operates from the Ferry Building and Pier 39 to ...