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 ...

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 ...