Downtown / Union Square

Contains 2840 photos

Market & Grant
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Market & Grant

[TEH883 Grant Ave. from Market St 1885 (Sic)] View north. Cable car, dentists offices, Hammam Baths. Utility poles with 9 crossbars on east side of Grant. Examiner newspaper offices at right, on northeast corner. Sanders & Johnson Merchant Tailors, Phelan Building at left. [G57 SSS-016] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Downtown / Union Square
Union Square
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Union Square

View north across Geary near Powell past Union Square to Trinity Episcopal Church. Hopkins and Stanford mansions in distance left. Temple Emanu-El and Pacific Business College at right. Plank sidewalks on Geary and Powell Streets.

Downtown / Union Square
Market Street near 5th
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Market Street near 5th

Elevated view southwest across Market to hills in distance. Utility poles with 12 crossbars on south side of Market. [2312 San Francisco, Calif., Market Street]

Downtown / Union Square
Market near 4th
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Market near 4th

View east to Admission Day Arch with portraits of Sutter and Fremont, and grizzly, Indian and miner atop. Original Phelan Building. "The Glorious 9th" [of September] banner.

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3rd & Market
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3rd & Market

Chronicle / de Young Building (print mounted behind glass)

Downtown / Union Square
View of Nob Hill
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View of Nob Hill

Elevated view north showing (left to right on horizon), First Congregational Church, Flood, Hopkins, Stanford Mansions, Calvary Church, Trinity Church, Temple Emanu-el. Mason street at left, Powell at right.

Downtown / Union Square
Sutter & Mason
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Sutter & Mason

Northeast corner of Sutter and Mason. (handwritten caption is incorrect) Home of Adolph Sutro's daughter, Emma Merritt, built 1870. This house was moved by Dr. Merritt in 1900 to 2355 Webster. (which avoided its destruction in the 1906 earthquake and fire.)[Cor. Of Sutter and Powell Streets. Mrs. Merritt's Residence, May 1890]

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Temple Emanu El
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Temple Emanu El

Elevated view north across Sutter Temple Emanu-el, present site of 450 Sutter Medical building.

Downtown / Union Square
Baldwin Hotel
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Baldwin Hotel

View northeast across Market Street to Baldwin Hotel on corner of Powell. H. D. Slaven druggist on ground floor. Hotel destroyed by fire in 1898.

Downtown / Union Square
Market & Kearny
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Market & Kearny

[Palace Hotel, Market St. No. 5 Market Street] Looking southeast to Palace Hotel and Grand Hotel. Portion of Lotta's Fountain at left. Cable car, buggies, people walking. Same image as wnp27.3380.

Downtown / Union Square
Powell & Sutter
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Powell & Sutter

View northeast across intersection to Powell Street Cable Car #7 passing northbound cable car. Utility poles with 8 crossbars on north side of Sutter.

Downtown / Union Square
Market & Kearny
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Market & Kearny

View Southeast across Market [Palace Hotel & Lotta's Fountain] Castro St. Cable Car.

Downtown / Union Square
Temple Emanu-El
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Temple Emanu-El

Elevated view north across Sutter between Stockton and Powell to Temple Emanu-El. Present site of 450 Sutter Building.

Downtown / Union Square
Post & Stockton
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Post & Stockton

Elevated view northwest across intersection to four-story brick structure with 'UC' etched in building, the Walkerley Building, northwest corner Post and Stockton, facing Union Square, rented for use almost until 1906 by the Union Club, after 1889 the Pacific-Union Club.

Downtown / Union Square
Post & Stockton
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Post & Stockton

View northwest across intersection to Walkerley building, designed by Wright and Sanders. Built in 1886 at Post and Stockton Streets for the Union Club, which in 1889 merged to become the Pacific-Union Club. UC (Union Club) incised on building.

Downtown / Union Square
Sutter & Montgomery
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Sutter & Montgomery

Elevated view to northwest corner of Sutter & Montgomery, Savings & Loan Society Building (earlier known as the Clock Tower Building, showing new added fifth story).

Downtown / Union Square
Palace Hotel
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Palace Hotel

Elevated View south across Market toward New Montgomery, Palace Hotel at right, Grand Hotel at left. Cable cars running on Market Street. Advertising billboard for Easton & Eldridge Real Estate Agents. Same image as wnp70.0386, but less tightly cropped at sides. [Palace Hotel Market St. San Francisco Cal. A.J. McDonald]

Downtown / Union Square
Baldwin Hotel
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Baldwin Hotel

Elevated view north up Powell from Market. Cable cars and carriages. Baldwin Hotel burned in 1898, now the site of the Flood Building. In distance left, Calvary Presbyterian Church (later site of the St. Francis Hotel), Stanford and Mark Hopkins Mansions. [McDonald. The Baldwin.]

Downtown / Union Square
Market & 3rd
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Market & 3rd

Elevated view south to cable cars & horsecars in front of Nucleus Hotel. Lotta's Fountain at left. Beamish's shirts & clothing store. Cropped from wnp71.0384. [F810 STC-033] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)[Third & Market 1880 MB Year 1890]

Downtown / Union Square
Market & Kearny
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Market & Kearny

[South Side Market St. opposite Kearny] Cable cars, Nucleus Hotel, with Lotta's Fountain at lower right, part of Palace Hotel at left. [F810 STC-040] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Downtown / Union Square