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San Francisco's Cliff House Restaurant and Seal Rocks, ca.1900 View from the beach of San Francisco's Cliff House Restaurant and Seal Rocks, ca.1900. The stately six-story Victorian structure is perched on the edge of the palisade overlooking the ocean. An elevated wooden walkway leading to it is visible at right.
The Cliff House is a neo-classical style building perched on the headland above the cliffs just north of Ocean Beach, in the Outer Richmond neighborhood of San Francisco, California. The building overlooks the site of the Sutro Baths ruins, Seal Rocks , and is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area , operated by the National Park ...
The San Francisco Camera Obscura projects an image onto a horizontal viewing table via a reflected image from a viewpoint at the top of the building. A metal hood in the cupola at the top of the building slowly rotates, making a full revolution in about six minutes, allowing for a 360° view around the building.
San Francisco firm Homework transforms a grand historic house in Pacific Heights into a home brimming with color and life for a young family.
[1] [3] Only four of the houses in this historic district had survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. [3] The oldest surviving house in the district is 982 Green Street, built in 1878. [4] Most of the early residents had middle class careers, with the exception of three homes on Green Street at the top of the hill. [4]
44 Montgomery is a 43-story, 172 m (564 ft) office skyscraper in the heart of San Francisco's Financial District. [5] Groundbreaking was in the spring of 1964. [6] When completed in 1967, it was the tallest building west of Dallas, surpassed by 555 California Street (built as the world headquarters of Bank of America) in 1969.
The Sutro family donated the estate to the City of San Francisco in 1938. In 1939 the Works Progress Administration (WPA) demolished the residence. [7] Remaining statuary was removed, with the exception of The Lions, copies of those in London's Trafalgar Square at the entrance gate, and a statue of Diana the Huntress (Artemis), a concrete copy of the Louvre's Diana, itself a Roman copy of a ...
The James C. Flood Mansion is a historic mansion at 1000 California Street, atop Nob Hill in San Francisco, California, USA.Now home of the Pacific-Union Club, it was built in 1886 as the townhouse for James C. Flood, a 19th-century silver baron.