
Mark Hopkins Hotel
Elevated view of Mark Hopkins from Fairmont Tower, looking southwest.
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Elevated view of Mark Hopkins from Fairmont Tower, looking southwest.
Nob HillView southwest to Nob Hill over North Beach and Chinatown. Stanford Court Apartments (later Hotel), Mark Hopkins and Fairmont Hotels. Brocklebank, Park Lane Apartments, Grace Cathedral with single bell tower, Cathedral Apartments behind. 11-story building at 1190 Sacramento St. in front of Grace Cathedral completed in 1958. In center distance, Clay-Jones Apartments with radio tower atop behind Crest Royal Apartments, 1310 Jones built 1955. 10-story 1360 Jones apartments (William Schirmer architect 1928). At bottom left, St. Francis of Assisi Church, Ping Yuen public housing. At bottom right, Lyon Van & Storage Co. with large Lyon sign on roof, on Stockton near Green. Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe Church, Broadway and Mason, at center right,
Telegraph HillMarket & New Montgomery. Burned 1906. Overland Ticket Office at street level (Taber's Album of Principal Businesses)
South of MarketMarket Street Railway (MSRy) Powell Street cable car #501 stopped in front of the St. Francis Hotel
Downtown / Union SquareKPTV ABC television camera set up on tripod in Union Square. KPTV bus with additional camera crews on roof. St. Francis Hotel in background.
Downtown / Union SquareView south from center of Powell St between Bush and Sutter, with cable car #506 descending hill. Sir Francis Drake Hotel at left, Chancellor Hotel at right. Fitzhugh Building, Union Square, St. Francis Hotel in distance.
Downtown / Union SquareInterior view of courtyard and elevators at Hyatt Regency Hotel. Sculpture at right titled 'Sphere' by Charles O. Perry.
Financial DistrictInterior view of courtyard and trees.
Financial DistrictR.C. Chambers Mansion at 2220 - 2222 Sacramento Street between Buchanan and Laguna, when mansion was operated as Mansions Hotel by Robert Pritikin. Chambers Mansion, built 1887 (updated 1917) SFLandmark 119.
Pacific HeightsLooking toward Nob Hill at right. Fairmont Tower under construction
Telegraph HillChef presents The Cheesecake to a woman and two men in the Garden Court. [ 2-10-50 Main Dining Room Palace Hotel]
South of MarketNortheast corner of Market & Powell. [No. 110. Baldwin Hotel, Market Street, SF, Cal.] Elevated view north across Market St. to Baldwin Hotel, destroyed by fire on November 23, 1898 (Present site of Flood Building). Stanford Mansion and Trinity Episcopal Church at background left. Horsecar tracks were installed in 1879 and replaced by cable car tracks in 1888.
Downtown / Union SquareView to southeast from Haight. URR 6-line streetcar making turn onto Haight. The two larger buildings in the background at the corner of Brady Street, 1649-51 Market (apartments by MacDonald & Applegarth) and 1659 Market (Hotel Yolanda) still stand in 2020, as does the Civic Center Hotel in the distance. [General view at intersection of Haight and Market showing the location of break in 16 inch main which occurred 2am Dec 28, 1920][D-196]
Lower HaightView west from 44 Montgomery (completed in 1967) 450 Sutter at center, Mark Hopkins and Nob Hill on the right.
Financial DistrictElevated view southeast across Mason & California intersection. [Mark Hopkins Hotel, Zan 1838]
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