Temple Emanu-El
Elevated view north to Temple Emanu-El. Same image as Lawrence and Houseworth #235. Jewish Synagogue, Sutter Street, front view, San Francisco
Downtown / Union SquareSynagogue
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Mason near Geary
Elevated view east across Mason to Temple Ohabai Shalome, built 1865 by congregants unhappy with Temple Emanu-el. The 414 Mason Street temple was commissioned from local architect Augustus F. Eisen. In 1895, the congregation moved to a new building at 1881 Bush (Bush Street Temple) [234. Jewish Synagogue on Mason St.], Temple Emanu-el in background left/
Downtown / Union Square
Sutter Street & Mason
[Sutter Street from Mason, San Francisco - view East 1394.] View east on Sutter toward Mason, Temple Emanu-El in the distance. Home of Captain Oliver Eldridge with mansard roof, at right.
Lower Nob Hill
View SE from Russian Hill
[Panorama from Russian Hill, San Francisco (No. 9.) 770. Watkins' Pacific Coast] Looking southeast from approximately Vallejo near Taylor. Vallejo St. at left, Metropolitan Hotel Stable and Temple Sherith Israel (Later congregation Shaari Zedek, Built 1854 on Stockton between Broadway and Vallejo) Post Office and Custom House, center, Miners Exchange Bank in front of Post Office with cupola, Montgomery Block, Waterfront before seawall built.
Russian Hill
Sutter & Stockton
Elevated view northwest across Sutter St. toward temple Emanu-el. Building on right, at northwest corner of Sutter & Stockton was the mansion of pioneer physician Augustus J. Bowie until 1871, when it was converted to a theatre and beer garden, the Vienna Garden. It was demolished in 1892. Also the home of Judge Burritt and banker Lucien Herman. Plank sidewalks.
Downtown / Union Square
California & Taylor
View southeast from Charles Crocker Residence. The residence of attorney Richard Tobin, at the SE corner of California and Taylor streets (1871). The architects, S. C. Bugbee and Son, also designed the Colton, Crocker, and Stanford mansions nearby. Present site of the Huntington Hotel. [WK] Palace Hotel (1875), Temple Emanu-el, bay and ships in background. Plank sidewalks. [View from the Residence of Chas. Crocker, Esq. S.F. 3641]
Nob Hill
Post & Taylor
NE corner Post and Taylor, Temple Sherith Israel synagogue, built in 1870, Helmering & Plege. Later site of Bohemian Club. Behind the Temple on the right is St. John's Presbyterian Church, built circa 1866. In 1870, the congregation bought the building from St. James' Episcopal Church. Plank sidewalks.
Lower Nob Hill
Union Square
["Nob Hill" from Phelan Building, San Francisco] Elevated view northwest across Union Square. Homes, Trinity Episcopal Church, National Guard Armory, Nob Hill mansions, and Temple Emanu-El. Building at lower left, Howard Block, built in 1873, then home of the Concordia Club at 102 O'Farrell.
Downtown / Union Square
View from Alta Plaza
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View southeast across the Western Addition of the fire after the 1906 earthquake. Washington St. at left, Cooper Medical College, which later became Stanford University Department of Medicine and Pacific Medical Center and Temple Sherith Israel at right.
Pacific Heights
Temple Sherith Israel
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northeast across intersection to Temple Sherith Israel (Albert Pissis, architect) from California and Webster, apparently being repaired after 1906 earthquake. Sign for relocated Superior Court on side of building. Cooper Medical College / Lane Hospital (Later Stanford University Department of Medicine and Pacific Medical Center, demolished 1974) on left.
Pacific Heights
Powell near Bush
1906 Earthquake and Fire, view southeast to ruins of Temple Emanu-El, Chronicle Annex, Shreve Building, Call Building, Butler Building (Newman & Levinson Dry Goods sign], Whittell Building under construction behind left steeple. In foreground, five ruined archways of Germania Hall / California Hall at 620 Bush. Earthquake ruins and rubble everywhere.
Nob Hill
Geary & Fillmore
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Temple Beth Israel ruins. (Cropped inferior copy of wnp70.10062)
Western Addition
Powell & Market
Elevated view north on Powell. Nob Hill in distance. Temple Emanu-El on Sutter St. at right. In distance left, Temple Ohabai Shalome, built 1865 by congregants unhappy with Temple Emanu-el, at 414 Mason, near Post.
Downtown / Union Square
Market & Mason
View northeast across Market, Temple Emanu-el in background. Plank sidewalks. [TEH83 Market & Mason Sts. 1865]
Tenderloin
Post & Powell
[394 Trinity Church, and Jewish Synagogue. Published by Bradley & Rulofson] Elevated view north across Union Square to Trinity Episcopal Church (Dedicated September 22, 1867), National Guard Armory and Temple Emanu-El. White house to right of Temple Emanu-El was the mansion of pioneer physician Augustus J. Bowie until 1871, when it was converted to a theatre and beer garden, the Vienna Garden. It was demolished in 1892.
Downtown / Union Square