Buildings

Contains 285 photos

View east from Nob Hill
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View east from Nob Hill

Downtown skyscrapers, Standard Oil Building under construction

Nob Hill
Pacific & Mason
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Pacific & Mason

Northeast view toward Telegraph Hill from Nob Hill, North Beach reconstructed, 1906 ruins in foreground. Ruins of St. Francis Church at center.

Nob Hill
Telegraph Hill
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Telegraph Hill

View from Nob Hill, from Fairmont.

Nob Hill
Page & Ashbury
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Page & Ashbury

View northwest from roof toward Golden Gate Park Panhandle, St. Ignatius Church, Lone Mountain. On left, 459 and 449 Ashbury, with Queen Anne octagonal towers, built 1893 by Cranston & Keenan.

Haight Ashbury
View From Dolores Park
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View From Dolores Park

View northeast towards downtown and Bay Bridge. Across Dolores St. is Golden Gate Lutheran Church (aka Mission Park Congregational Church, Norwegian Lutheran Church, Ascension Lutheran Church), built 1910, in 2015 became Childrens Day School campus. Pacific Telephone Building, Hamm's Brewery in background center and right.

Mission Dolores
Downtown
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Downtown

Elevated view northwest from Market Street towards North Beach and Telegraph Hill. Old Federal Reserve Bank, U.S. Appraisers Building. Russian Hill in distance left.

Financial District
View of Downtown
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View of Downtown

View south from Coit Tower between Montgomery and Kearny. Potrero Hill, San Bruno Mountain in background

Telegraph Hill
View SW from Coit Tower
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View SW from Coit Tower

View southwest over Chinatown and North Beach to Nob Hill, Mt. Sutro in background. In left and center distance, Mark Hopkins and Fairmont Hotels, Brocklebank, Park Lane and Cathedral Apartments, Grace Cathedral with one bell tower. 11-story building at 1190 Sacramento St. in front of Grace Cathedral completed in 1958. Clay-Jones Apartments, Crest Royal Apartments 1310 Jones built 1955, 10-story 1360 Jones apartments (William Schirmer architect, 1928). Behind 1360 Jones, Comstock Apartments (completed 1961) is under construction. Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe Church, Broadway and Mason, at center right, St. Francis of Assisi Church at lower left. Washington Square lower right. Lyon Van & Storage Co. with large Lyon sign on roof on Stockton, near Green. Russian Hill at right.

Telegraph Hill
View from Edgehill
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View from Edgehill

View northeast from Edgehill toward Laguna Honda Hospital and Youth Guidance Center, Twin Peaks in background.

Laguna Honda
View from Bayview Hill
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View from Bayview Hill

view Northeast from Bayview Hill to Hunters Point, showing Bayview district, Potrero Hill in the distance

Hunters Point
1st & Bryant
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1st & Bryant

View south from Rincon Hill above Embarcadero to Pacific Coast Company coal yard, lumber yards, Fleet in the Bay, Great White Fleet.

Rincon Hill
1st & Bryant
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1st & Bryant

View southeast from Rincon Hill above Embarcadero to Pacific Coast Company coal yard, lumber yards, derricks, Fleet in the Bay, Great White Fleet

Rincon Hill
1st & Bryant
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1st & Bryant

Elevated view southeast from Rincon Hill above Embarcadero to Pacific Coast Company coal yard, lumber yards, derricks, Fleet in the Bay, Great White Fleet. Water tank atop Hobbs, Wall & Co. Standard Box Co. on Beale.

Rincon Hill
140 New Montgomery St
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140 New Montgomery St

Elevated view south on New Montgomery to Pacific Telephone Building, Palace Hotel on right

Downtown / Union Square
Union Square
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Union Square

Butler Bldg., Camels Billboard, CH Baker Shoes

Downtown / Union Square