The Palace was not designed as 'a Valentine for San Francisco.' Maybeck visualized its colonnade streaming with people, finding a reward within the great doors. 1915 Expo Poster. Click for larger view. he task of creating a Palace of Fine Arts for the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition fell to the architect Bernard R. Maybeck, then fifty years old and known for his innovative ideas.

Home Index By Subject By Year Biographies The Gift Shop Photo and 1900 Biography of Lillie Hitchcock Coit History of the San Francisco Fire Department Coit Tower Murals San Francisco History 1846 - 1864 Elizabeth Wyche Lillie Hitchcock Coit By Frederick J. Bowlen Battalion Chief, San Francisco Fire Department One of the most unusual personalities ever connected with our Fire Department was a ...

SUTRO TOWER Sutro Tower is a 977-foot tall self-supporting steel structure which is shared by ten television stations and four FM radio stations to enable them to broadcast their signals to the general public. Sutro Tower is owned and operated by Sutro Tower Inc. (STI), an independent corporation founded in 1968 by the owners of KTVU-2, KRON-4, KPIX-5, and KGO-TV 7. The owners hold equal shares ...

San Francisco Modern Architecture A guide to interesting homes and commercial buildings Gallery 1 Gallery 2 Gallery 3 Gallery 4 San Francisco is known worldwide as a hotbed of Victorian era architecture. There are countless books, calendars, tours, and knickknacks devoted to these relics that were constructed over a relatively short time during the turn of the Century when pioneers and the ...

Sutro Tower now has TV and FM antennas located above and below Level 6 as shown in the diagram above. Don't miss the detailed diagram which shows where each antenna is on the existing tower, and where Sutro Tower plans to locate the DTV mast. The proposed 125-foot long DTV mast would hang below the crossbars at Level 6. Anticipated radiated power is to be 4.9 MW (megawatts) in addition to the ...

Coit Tower Coit Tower is located atop Telegraph Hill. The money to build it was donated by famous San Franciscan Lillie Hitchcock Coit. Lillie was a Bourbon drinking, cigar smoking card playing heiress who had a passion for fire and firefighters. Her passion for fires came from when she was saved from a burning building as a child. After that point she hardly missed a fire and was known as the ...