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Built in 1886 for William and Bertha Haas, it survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and subsequent fire. The Victorian era house is a San Francisco Designated Landmark and is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. It was converted into a museum with period furniture and artifacts, which as of 2016 received over 6,500 ...
Remnant of the commercial downtown of the village of North La Crosse, [31] including the 1883 Italianate-style Apsey Block, [32] the 1888 Italianate Wannebo Grocery, [33] the 1891 Italianate Willing Dry Goods store, [34] the 1895 Queen Anne-style Horner Block (later used by an undertaker), [35] and the 1920 Neoclassical-style Riviera Theatre.
Notwithstanding the merger, the Museum of the City of San Francisco's website, operated directly by Gladys Hansen, remained independent and in 2003 renamed itself the Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco. [10] Hansen's personal research collection of artifacts from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake also remained in her possession. [11]
Columbus Tower, also known as the Sentinel Building, is a mixed-use building in San Francisco, California, completed in 1907.The distinctive copper-green Flatiron style structure is bounded by Columbus Avenue, Kearny Street, and Jackson Street; straddling the North Beach, Chinatown, and Financial District neighborhoods of the city.
New Langton Arts (active 1975 – 2009) [1] was a not-for-profit arts organization focusing on contemporary art founded in 1975 and located the South of Market neighborhood in San Francisco, California.
View of downtown San Francisco from the Randall Museum. Originally named the "Junior Museum", the facility was established in 1937 in an old city jail on what is now the campus of City College of San Francisco. [2] [1] In 1947, a $12 million bond was issued for the creation of recreation and park capital projects, one of which included a new ...
The Legion of Honor was inspired by the French pavilion, a replica of the Palais de la Légion d'Honneur in Paris, at San Francisco's Panama–Pacific International Exposition of 1915. The museum opened in 1924 in the Beaux Arts–style building designed by George Applegarth on a bluff overlooking the Golden Gate. In 1995, the Legion of Honor ...
Melchor and Hirshberg [3] initially opened Gray Area Gallery in San Francisco's South of Market (SoMa) in 2006, following a conversation about the lack of proper venues for the exhibition of new media and technology-based art works. [4] By 2008, the gallery had incorporated as a non-profit and was renamed the Gray Area Foundation for The Arts.