Contains 2516 photos
Aerial View southeast above SF Bay west of Fort Mason and Aquatic Park. Telegraph Hill and Coit Tower, Russian Hill, North Beach, Downtown, Embarcadero Freeway and Bay Bridge are notable. The first unit of the Fontana Apartments is under construction at lower center.
Aerial view west past the Bay Bridge toward downtown. Piers south of Market, Embarcadero Freeway. 650 California Street and Golden Gateway development under construction. [15160]
View north from Ocean Beach near Balboa toward the 3rd Cliff House. Waders and picnickers dot the beach. Cliff House still under construction. [New Cliff House]
Richmond Outer
[Seal Rocks & The Cliff House no. 973] View northwest to Seal Rocks and 3rd Cliff House. Crowds on the beach
Sutro Heights
View east on Market toward Call Building. Midway Plaisance 'Big Show Burlesque', Sanborn Vail & Co. Dixon's Hatter & Furnisher, Hearst Examiner Building, Palace Hotel in distance. Lion Drug Co. listed in City Directories 1901-1904
Downtown / Union Square
View east on O'Farrell toward intersection with Market and Grant. Call Building in background. Oberon Music Hall in Shiels Building (38 O'Farrell, offices and lodge halls) left of center. In the Kohler & Chase building (with Decker Bros. Piano sign) basement is site of the Belvedere Music Hall (began operations about July, 1904). The three-story building just after it is the Fire Station for Truck No. 1. Phelan Building at right. (PF) Bancroft History Building across Market St. in distance with Ayres' Business College sign. Sign on building across Market for Sarah Cowell LeMoyne in 'The First Duchess Marlborough' at the Columbia Theatre, which played there in November, 1901. (see also wnp27.7594 taken minutes apart)
Downtown / Union Square
View north across Page from Page and Laguna Mini-Park toward a row of Victorian houses between Laguna and Octavia. 294 Page art left, Charles and Ida Deitle House, SF Landmark 48. Designed by architect Henry Geilfuss in 1888, this house replaced an 1878 house on the site.
Lower Haight
2645 Gough Street. Colonial Dames McElroy Octagon House built 1861, moved across Gough in 1952 to its current location. SF Landmark 17.
Union Street
Talbot-Dutton House, 1782 Pacific St., Italianate style Victorian, built 1875. SF Landmark 57.
Pacific Heights
The McCormick House at 4040-4042 17th Street. Built 1902 designed by Kidd and Anderson Queen Anne flats with onion dome on eastern tower. Landmark #208
Castro
1348 South Van Ness between 24th and 25th; SF Landmark 79. Queen Anne Victorian with tower, built 1886. Architect Seth Babson for Frank M. Stone.
Mission
1381 South Van Ness, between 24th and 25th, Charles Haven's mansion built 1884, SFLandmark #125.
Mission
Northwest corner of Franklin, Edward Coleman House, 1701 Franklin, built 1896, architect Salfield & Kohlberg, SF Landmark 54.
Pacific Heights
Elevated view east from Nob Hill probably from the Mark Hopkins Hotel toward the Metropolitan Life Insurance Building at center, Bay and Yerba Buena Island beyond. Notable skyscrapers include Commercial Union Assurance Building (315 Montgomery), Standard Oil Building, Hobart Building, Matson Building, PG&E Building (under construction, completed 1925). Pacific Telephone Company business offices (430-444 Bush) under construction between Bush and Pine at right center, across from Pacific Telephone Building at 445 Bush. Original Federal Reserve Bank, Montgomery Block, Appraisers Building, Bank of Italy at left. At right of center, Mills Building, Alexander Building. (Notably absent is Russ Building, 1927).
Nob Hill
View northeast across Market between Stockton and Grant. Phelan Building at center, with many storefronts. Photo was taken to illustrate effect of new parking rules on Market Street. Wells Fargo - Union Trust Building, Mutual Savings Bank, Hobart Building in the background [Market Stockton to Grant]
Downtown / Union Square