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 Hill
View 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 Hill
Market & New Montgomery. Burned 1906. Overland Ticket Office at street level (Taber's Album of Principal Businesses)
South of Market
Market Street Railway (MSRy) Powell Street cable car #501 stopped in front of the St. Francis Hotel
Downtown / Union Square
KPTV 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 Square
View 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 Square
Interior view of courtyard and elevators at Hyatt Regency Hotel. Sculpture at right titled 'Sphere' by Charles O. Perry.
Financial District
Interior view of courtyard and trees.
Financial District
R.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 Heights
Looking toward Nob Hill at right. Fairmont Tower under construction
Telegraph Hill
Chef presents The Cheesecake to a woman and two men in the Garden Court. [ 2-10-50 Main Dining Room Palace Hotel]
South of Market
Northeast 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 Square
View 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 Haight
View west from 44 Montgomery (completed in 1967) 450 Sutter at center, Mark Hopkins and Nob Hill on the right.
Financial District
Elevated view southeast across Mason & California intersection. [Mark Hopkins Hotel, Zan 1838]
Nob Hill