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View NW from Pacific Heights

January 1, 1895

View northwest from Pacific Heights about Broadway and Fillmore, over Cow Hollow toward the Golden Gate. Pierce St. runs across the view. Small church on Green St. built in 1887 with funds provided by Stephen S. Smith, deacon of Plymouth Congregational Church and publisher of the Pacific. In 1895, it became Pierce Street Congregational Church. Intersection at center right is Pierce and Union. Large southwest corner mansion with gardens front and back was built circa 1884 by wealthy attorney and landowner David Bixler. Four story windmill and water tank across Union. Home of Louis Schultz (1842-1909, brewer and capitalist) with Mansard roof to right of water tower, at 2426 (later 2466) Filbert, built no later than 1875, demolished 1948. Presidio, Fort Point, shoreline, Harbor View.