Washington Square
View west to Russian Hill up Union Street. Grading and landscaping of Square was completed in April, 1869.
North BeachPlaza
Contains 139 photos
Portsmouth Square
View northeast to children posing. [Helios]
Chinatown
Civic Center Aerial
View northeast above Gough, War Memorial Building and Opera House, City Hall, State Office Building, Federal Office Building (later named Phillip Burton Federal Building), 100 McAllister (former Empire Hotel), Old Main Library (later Asian Art Museum), USO Hospitality House (used as San Francisco city offices before its demolition).
Civic Center
St. Mary's Square
View east in park to little boy in overalls, adults seated on bench. Tall buildings in background are Pacific National Bank Building (18 story building at 333 Montgomery, near California, now demolished), Commercial Union Assurance Building (315 Montgomery).
Chinatown
Portsmouth Square
Baby on grass in Portsmouth Square. View southeast to Clay and Kearny Streets in background, McDonough Brothers Bail Bonds.
Chinatown
Geary near Stockton
View east on Geary between Stockton & Powell [Geary street before the fire. Copyright 1906 Pillsbury Picture Co. No. 121] Union Square, Geary cable car and Whittell building under construction. Lengfeld's Pharmacy.
Downtown / Union Square
Union Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, view north from Dewey Monument [2195. A Water Station in Business District, San Francisco] Earthquake refugees and Temple Emanu-El Ruins in background.
Downtown / Union Square
Mason & California
View northwest from Mark Hopkins Hotel toward Golden Gate past Huntington Park. Grace Cathedral rectory and grounds at left. Chambord Apartments, Clay-Jones Apartments (1930, architect Albert Larsen) with radio tower on roof in distance. Crest Royal Apartments 1310 Jones built 1955, 10-story 1360 Jones apartments (William Schirmer architect, 1928). Roof of Pacific Union Club (Flood Mansion) at bottom right. [Photo furnished through courtesy Burlington Route and Western Pacific R.R.]
Nob Hill
Polk & Filbert
View southwest to Pacific Heights. Old St. Brigid Catholic Church up on hill side at Broadway and Van Ness. Corner estate with gardens in foreground belonged to E. Willard Burr, house at right to his son C.C. Burr. Burr's property was fenced along Laguna Survey lines, which were roughly diagonal to the main street grid. Rails on roadway for Sutter Street Railroad horsecar line to Harbor View, abandoned in 1873 in favor of a more direct route. Van Ness Avenue was extended through the property in 1894. Lafayette Park in background right. Same image as wnp71.2098.
Russian Hill
Union Square
Elevated view northwest over Union Square from Stockton and Geary.
Downtown / Union Square
California Near Taylor
View northeast to Park Lane Apartments, Brocklebank Apartments, Huntington Park, Pacific Union Club (Flood Mansion) Fairmont Hotel with tower (completed 1961). 650 California (originally Hartford Insurance Building, completed 1964)) at far right.
Nob Hill
Stockton & Geary
Elevated view northwest over Union Square to Calvary Church; First Congregational Church, Trinity Church; National Guard Armory; Mark Hopkins mansion upper right
Downtown / Union Square
Post near Powell
View north from Union Square to National Guard Armory (dedicated on March 6, 1864), Post between Powell & Stockton Streets, Temple Emanu-El on Sutter Street behind. Portion of Trinity Episcopal Church (Cornerstone laid late 1866, dedicated September 22, 1867) on left
Downtown / Union Square
St. Francis Hotel
View west from Union Square, before construction of northernmost wing, which opened in 1913.
Downtown / Union Square
Union Square
Elevated view north to Fairmont Hotel, towers of rebuilt Temple Emanu-El, Dewey Monument, Union Square Hotel at right. Reconstruction after earthquake. [Post St. Between Stockton and Powell 637]
Downtown / Union Square