Ocean House
Ocean House, near north end of Lake Merced in the area of Middlefield and Eucalyptus (burned in 1882). Site of Lowell High School. (Watkins stereoview No. 1707).
LakeshoreUnbuilt
Contains 4015 photos
View from Lafayette Park
View northeast from near Lafayette Park. Four story building at left is the Parisian Hotel c.1871 (became Abbotsford House 1876, Broadway between Larkin & Polk). To right, Spring Valley Grammar School (S.C. Bugbee & Son Architect 1865-1866), Larkin St. Presbyterian Church (at Pacific, 1864). Russian Hill, large house with dark roof is Rudolph Lawler house, SW corner Green & Leavenworth built 1861. In front of it is J. Shade Duncan house c.1857, to its right with Mansard roof and cupola (NW corner Vallejo & Leavenworth), Jabez Clay house. At lower left with Mansard roof, W.C. Talbot house (S.C. Bugbee & Son 1872 NE Corner Jackson & Franklin). [San Francisco and Environs from Holliday (Sic) Heights 2470] Similar to wnp37.00819. ("Holladay Heights" 1866 mansion of Samuel W. Holladay).[W
Pacific Heights
View of Western Addition
View southwest over Western Addition towards Lone Mountain. St. Dominic's Catholic Church, Calvary and Laurel Hill cemeteries from Lafayette Park (Holladay Heights)[San Francisco and Environs from Holliday (Sic) Heights 2461]. "Holladay Heights" was the 1866 mansion of Samuel W. Holladay.
Pacific Heights
View from Lafayette Park
View northeast from near Lafayette Park. Four story building at left is the Parisian Hotel c.1871 (became Abbotsford House 1876, Broadway between Larkin & Polk). To right, Spring Valley Grammar School (S.C. Bugbee & Son Architect 1865-1866), Larkin St. Presbyterian Church (at Pacific, 1864). On Russian Hill, large house with dark roof is Rudolph Lawler house, SW corner Green & Leavenworth built 1861. In front of it is J. Shade Duncan house c.1857, to its right with Mansard roof and cupola (NW corner Vallejo & Leavenworth), Jabez Clay house. At lower left with Mansard roof, W.C. Talbot house (S.C. Bugbee & Son 1872 NE Corner Jackson & Franklin).[San Francisco and Environs from Holliday (Sic) Heights 2470] Similar to wnp37.00819. ("Holladay Heights" 1866 mansion of Samuel W. Holladay).[W
Pacific Heights
Geary & Taylor
[Geary Street, from Taylor, view East, S. F.] On the near right corner of Geary and Mason is the only known view of one of the earliest buildings to be constructed in this area. It was built as a Presbyterian Church in 1854 and went through a number of uses as a church, Sunday School, and a non-sectarian school (the Urban Academy on the likely date of this photograph)(PF), 8th Ward Market at 443 Geary. Palace Hotel in distance, spires at left are on Calvary Presybterian church. Plank sidewalks. Watkins Stereoview 2450.
Tenderloin
Laguna & Hermann
[Rincon Hill Slope from the Orphan Asylum, S. F. 3654] View from Mint Hill past wood picket fence and rock outcrop, toward Selby Shot Tower, row houses, warehouses. Cropped from larger image at wnp26.489.
Lower Haight
Sausalito
View northerly from around today's Woodward and Cazneau Avenues. The two houses on the upper left are 195 Woodward and 207 Woodward, both still standing. Boy sitting on fence. Richardson Bay and 'new town' area of Sausalito in view. Mt. Tamalpais in the background. [11671 - Mount Tamalpais from Sausalito, San Francisco, Cal. U.S.A.]
Outside SF
Dolores Park
View north from roughly Church and 20th Streets over Jewish Cemetery and the Mission. Children, man, baby in buggy. Duplicate of wnp24.236a
Dolores Heights
Old Mint
5th Street at Mission. View northwest across intersection United States Mint, children on board sidewalk, horses and wagons, cobblestones, utility poles with 8 crossbars, and horsecar rails. Variant of Reilly stereocard titled 'No. 175 U.S. Mint, San Francisco, Cal."
South of Market
Fort Point
View looking west. Woman and child on beach with Fort Point and two lighthouse keepers' residences on bluff behind. Copy of wnp37.01023 with different cropping.
Green & Taylor
View from near Green and Taylor Streets, northeast to Washington Square (with mature trees) and Telegraph Hill. St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal Church to left of Washington Square at Stockton and Filbert. Original Ss. Peter & Paul church at Filbert and Grant. Duplicate of wnp24.186a.
Russian Hill
View from Nob Hill
View northeast toward Telegraph Hill from Nob Hill. The people are standing north of Sacramento, mid block where Wetmore Street dead ends to the left of them. The vacant lot from near the end of Wetmore Street extends all the way down to Powell. Man and two children in view. Powell St. M.E. Church, St. Francis of Assisi Church and Layman's Castle visible. [Telegraph Hill from Nob Hill]
Nob Hill
Fort Point
Fort, lighthouse keepers' residences, bridge to top of fort, steamer in Golden Gate. Lime Point in background. [Fort Pt. Golden Gate Lime Pt.]
Presidio
Fort Point
View looking west. Woman and child on beach with Fort Point and two lighthouse keepers' residences on bluff behind. Copy of wnp37.00946 with different cropping.
Presidio
Western Addition
[1323. Lone Mountain Cemetery, from Russian Hill, San Francisco] View west past houses, cottages and dunes to Lone Mountain.
Russian Hill