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Historical Markers and War Memorials in San Francisco City and County, California
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"Our worst fear is that our painful history during World War II will be forgotten." - former Comfort Woman
This monument bears witness to the suffering of hundreds of thousands of women and girls, euphemistically . . . — — Map (db m114752) HM WM |
| | “The Family”, one of San Francisco’s oldest and most distinctive social clubs, was founded on this site on April, 1902
This plaque dedicated on the Club’s centennial — — Map (db m58397) HM |
| | We will never forget the genocidal slaughter of six million Jews, including one and a half million children in the Nazi Holocaust of 1933-1945.
We will never forget the cruel apathy of a world which allowed that Holocaust and the deliberate . . . — — Map (db m56540) HM |
| | . . . — — Map (db m71943) HM |
| | 332 Pine Street
Originally
“The Orient Building”
Constructed 1912
Architect: George Applegarth
A Category 1
Historic Landmark — — Map (db m73068) HM |
| | was built in Scotland for the San Francisco grain trade. From the time of her launching, in 1886, until 1890 she was employed in transporting the grain harvests of California's interior valleys to the ports of Europe.
"Although the building . . . — — Map (db m101887) HM |
| | In 1919, N.Gray & Company commissioned engineer James H. Hjul to construct a two-story, wood-frame building on the southwest corner of Post and Divisadero Streets. A rare example of Georgian Revival architecture in San Francisco, the building at . . . — — Map (db m72485) HM |
| | San Francisco was an ancient river valley were creatures who grazed and browsed and stalked their prey, left their bones. (text on the horizontal surface)
20,000 years ago you could have walked to the Farallon Islands... . . . — — Map (db m92829) HM |
| | Oldest surviving YMCA Building in California. In 1908 U.S. President William Howard Taft presided at the groundbreaking ceremony for this new building, which replaced the original central branch on Ellis and Mason streets. The original 1853 . . . — — Map (db m90942) HM |
| | Designated as a National Historic Monument, the Coffin Reddington Building was constructed in 1937 and was designed by Frederick H. Meyer, founder of the California College of Arts and Crafts, and architect of San Francisco City Hall, the Chronicle . . . — — Map (db m72618) HM |
| | On this site, the famous “49 Fourth Street” location of the United States Selective Service Induction Center, tens of thousands of San Franciscans and other Northern Californians were inducted into military service during World War II . . . — — Map (db m72617) HM |
| | Jackson Square
Historic District
Has been place on the
National Register
of Historic Places
By the United States
Department of the Interior
1971 — — Map (db m58549) HM |
| | Formerly the popular Blanco's Hotel and Restaurant, Taft Hotel
This building is listed in the
National Register of
Historic Places
Uptown Tenderloin Historic District — — Map (db m91655) HM |
| | Home of Dashiell Hammett and Sam Spade
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) lived in this building from 1926 until 1929, when he wrote his first three novels: Red Harvest (1929), The Dain Curse (1929), and The Maltese Falcon . . . — — Map (db m108316) HM |
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From 1914 to 1972, this area was occupied by the popular amusement center known as Playland-at-the-Beach. Imagine how it must have looked and felt when as many as 65,000 people frolicked here on weekends while taking in sea air mingled with the . . . — — Map (db m131926) HM |
| | Americanization was difficult for the Issei. Prejudice, language barriers and discrimination often stymied their efforts, yet they persisted, often venturing into Western society with great zeal. With the Nisei generation, however, the Japanese . . . — — Map (db m86488) HM |
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Original Site
NAMES Project,
AIDS Memorial Quilt
1987 — — Map (db m98206) HM |
| | British cryptanalyst, logician, philosopher and mathematician widely recognized as a pioneer of artificial intelligence and the father of computer science
Alan Turing — — Map (db m98105) HM |
| | Renowned poet, leading figure of the Beat Generation of American writers and artists, champion of freedom of expression and sexual self-determination. — — Map (db m99801) HM |
| | Alleyways in Chinatown were created during the early settlement of Chinese in the late 1870’s. During that period, the rapidly-growing community was restricted by anti-Chinese sentiment to a six block area behind the back streets of the Barbary . . . — — Map (db m71997) HM |
| | Formerly Ferris Harriman Theater and Hotel and site of the original Tivoli Opera House destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and fire.
Miriam Allen Deford, described by the Mystery Writers of America as San Francisco's “most distinguished and . . . — — Map (db m91524) HM |
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America’s First Irish Coffee was made here in 1952
It was inspirationally invented
at Shannon Airport by
Joe Sheridan
It was fortuitously introduced here by
Stan Delapane
It was nurtured to . . . — — Map (db m115924) HM |
| | The historic
Sentinel Building
has been the home of American Zoetrope since 1971. We have written, edited, and sound mixed many of our films here including Godfather I and II, Apocalypse Now, The Conversation, The Black Stallion and Rumble . . . — — Map (db m71451) HM |
| | Then-owner William Roth selected Ruth Asawa, well known for her abstract, wire-woven sculptures, to design and create the centerpiece fountain for Ghirardelli Square. Although it was unveiled among some controversy in 1968, Asawa's objective was to . . . — — Map (db m90225) HM |
| | Commenced operation August 1, 1873. Ceased February 15, 1947. Invented and installed by Andrew S. Hallidie, born London, England March 16, 1836. Died San Francisco, April 24, 1900. Pioneer manufacturer of wire cables, Regent University of . . . — — Map (db m143432) HM |
| | Acquired by Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation in 2000.
This building is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. — — Map (db m90144) HM |
| | The Assyrians formed one of the earliest great empires in the world. Their civilization dates from 2700 B.C. with the important cultural centers at Ashur and Nineveh north of modern Baghdad. Beginning as a river civilization in Mesopotamia between . . . — — Map (db m32080) HM |
| | Built by Hippolite d’Audiffred in 1889, with a cast-iron facade and a French mansard roof, this is the only building standing that witnessed the construction of the Ferry Building in 1896-1898. Together they are the only two buildings along the . . . — — Map (db m72608) HM |
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In the 1920s Army aviators flew wood-and-fabric covered biplanes on daring experimental missions. In 1919, Army Air Corps Major Henry "Hap" Arnold chose this site for a pioneer Army airfield. Arnold's pilots flew both regular aircraft and . . . — — Map (db m132489) HM |
| | The Bank of California, a founding financier of the West, was established by William Chapman Ralston on July 5, 1864, the company quickly outgrew its quarters at this location and engaged architects Walter Danforth Bliss and William Baker Faville to . . . — — Map (db m70832) HM |
| | Headquarters from 1908 to 1921
From here A.P. Giannini launched
the branch system that transformed
the nature of banking in California
National
Historic Landmark
This site is of national significance
in commemorating the . . . — — Map (db m71998) HM |
| | Noted politician and civil rights
leader, widely considered to be
the first openly lesbian
representative elected to the
United States Congress — — Map (db m120172) HM |
| | This marker consists of six plaques arranged in a 2 X 3 pattern. The top left plaque is the title plaque and may contain some text. The top right plaque displayed an arrow which points in the direction of the named street. Other plaques contain . . . — — Map (db m72563) HM |
| | Until this section of the seawall was completed in 1909, the waters of San Francisco Bay reached the shore near present-day Bryant Street. From this place, the Beale Street Wharf extended 500 feet into the bay, and inland for another 500 feet as far . . . — — Map (db m92912) HM |
| | Construction began in 1889 for San Francisco’s harbor Belt Line Railroad, a terminal switching railroad with locomotives dedicated to moving boxcars and flat cars directly alongside cargo vessels. Opening in 1896 to serve the warehouse and shipping . . . — — Map (db m70844) HM |
| | Walk through the grounds of the Palace of Fine Arts and notice how vistas change before your eyes. As vegetation frames and softens the lines of the architecture, the architecture in turn becomes a picture frame, highlighting views of the lush . . . — — Map (db m102290) HM |
| | On this Corner, the world's best Jazz musicians performed at the Blackhawk. The club's legacy lives in recordings made here by Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, Cal Tjader, Thelonious Monk and Ahmad Jamal, among others. Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, . . . — — Map (db m91060) HM |
| | French restaurant and “Parlor House”, Blanco's Cafe & Hotel was known as one of San Francisco's popular entertainment spots for the wealthy offering fine food, gambling and fancy women as a house of assignation. The great depression . . . — — Map (db m91654) HM |
| | Founded 1855
B'nai Brith was one of the most vibrant Jewish institutions in San Francisco. It operated seven lodges by 1900. Regional headquarters on this site once housed an extensive library especially strong in Judaica. The Building was . . . — — Map (db m91511) HM |
| | This marker consists of six plaques arranged in a 2 X 3 pattern. The top left plaque is the title plaque and may contain some text. The top right plaque displayed an arrow which points in the direction of the named street. Other plaques contain . . . — — Map (db m72551) HM |
| | Activated in 1890, this U.S. Life-Saving Station was built to aid endangered seafarers in the days when San Francisco was one of the world’s busiest ports. “Surfmen” braved wind and waves to rescue victims from distressed sailing ships . . . — — Map (db m63414) HM |
| | The brigantine Galilee "...has invariably outsailed and outpointed every vessel with which she has ever been in company, and has the reputation of being the smartest sailing vessel out of San Francisco."
— The Rudder, . . . — — Map (db m116754) HM |
| | This marker consists of six plaques arranged in a 2 X 3 pattern. The top left plaque is the title plaque and may contain some text. The top right plaque displayed an arrow which points in the direction of the named street. Other plaques contain . . . — — Map (db m92822) HM |
| | This simple industrial building was constructed
circa 1940 during a time of shipyard
modernization and expansion, as World War II
raged in Europe but the U.S. had yet to be
attacked. Building 49 is a simple utilitarian
structure that is 152 . . . — — Map (db m159878) HM |
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You are standing on section twelve of San Francisco's great seawall that was built between the years 1878 and 1924. Known as the Bulkhead, this continuous and massive embankment of stone was designed to hold back the bay, creating the curving . . . — — Map (db m92939) HM |
| | Bummer and Lazarus were two stray dogs who roamed this part of San Francisco in the 1860s. Their devotion to each other endeared them to the citizenry, and the newspapers reported their joint adventures, whether stealing a bone from another dog, . . . — — Map (db m58394) HM |
| | You are standing near the end of Cowell’s Wharf, dating back to early 1850s. As the map indicates a number of Gold Rush store-ships were moored as floating warehouses as far inland as Battery and Sansome Streets. With buildings in short supply, the . . . — — Map (db m70845) HM |
| | This marker is one of a series intended to commemorate the 150 years of the Port of San Francisco. It is composed of a captioned photograph and text entitled Did you know... mounted on a cylindrical metal pylon.
Derby-hatted Tom . . . — — Map (db m73136) HM |
| | This marker is one of a series intended to commemorate the 150 years of the Port of San Francisco. It is composed of a captioned photograph and text entitled Did you know... mounted on a cylindrical metal pylon.
Streetcars from Haight, . . . — — Map (db m73332) HM |
| | Designed by Frederick H. Mayer in 1907. First structure built in the Uptown Tenderloin after San Francisco's 1906 earthquake and fire. San Francisco Landmark No. 176. Boxer Muhammed Ali (known as Cassius Clay at the time) trained in the Hotel's . . . — — Map (db m63863) HM |
| | This Fountain
is Dedicated to
the Native Sons
of the Golden West
To Commemorate
The Admission of California
Into the Union
September the Ninth
Anno Domini
MDCCCL
“The unity of our empire hangs on the decision of this . . . — — Map (db m90968) HM |
| | A contributory building within the South End Historic District, designated by the City and County of San Francisco in 1990. The warehouse and industrial buildings from the District's period of significance (1867-1935) reflect the City's preeminence . . . — — Map (db m63844) HM |
| | An ethnically diverse student body experienced a “Worker's Culture” here through painting, dance, music, theater, labor history and social science courses. Such artists as Anton Refregier, Ralph Stackpole, and Pablo O'Higgins taught . . . — — Map (db m91526) HM |
| | On this site January 9, 1847
the California Star, the first
newspaper in San Francisco,
was published by Samuel Brannan — — Map (db m71460) HM |
| | In Honor of the One Hundredth Anniversary
of the
California Street Cable Cars Line
and Leland Stanford
Among the significant contributions of the Governor Leland Stanford family, whose home was located at this site, was their important . . . — — Map (db m71803) HM |
| | On this site
January 18, 1869
The California Theatre
Built by William C. Ralston
Opened with the following stock company
John McCullough • Lawrence Barrett • Harry Edwards • Willie Edouin • E.B. Holmes • William Mestayer • John T. . . . — — Map (db m143433) HM |
| | Erected by the Citizens of San Francisco in Honor of the California Volunteers Spanish-American War 1898
“First to the Front” — — Map (db m36691) HM |
| | Captain Leidesdorff’s father was a Danish sea captain; his Creole mother was from Danish-held St. Croix, where Leidesdorff was born in 1812. Educated in New Orleans, William Alexander Leidesdorff became an accomplished linguist and master of the . . . — — Map (db m73146) HM |
| | Born in Barbados, West Indies in 1859, Captain William Thomas Shorey served as the only black captain on the Pacific Coast during the rise of San Francisco as America's principal whaling port. Captain Shorey, known as "Black Ahab" by his crew, took . . . — — Map (db m92827) HM |
| | The first ship to enter San Francisco Bay, the San Carlos (Captain Ayala), dropped anchor off this point August 5, 1775. Lieutenant-Colonel Don Juan Bautista de Anza planted the cross on Cantil Blanco (White Cliff) March 28, 1776. The first . . . — — Map (db m10742) HM |
| | Nineteen tablets embedded in the sidewalk line each side of Castro Street between Market Street and 19th Street.
Before 1776 The native Yelamu people live nearby in the village of Hutchuei, relocating each winter to the bayside . . . — — Map (db m99828) HM |
| | Since Gold Rush times, this cove was used as a campsite by many of the Chinese fishermen who worked in and around San Francisco Bay. Their efforts to supply the needs of a young city helped establish one of the area's most important industries and . . . — — Map (db m52925) HM |
| | We Salute These Americans of Chinese Ancestry who Gave Their Lives for America in World Wars I & II
Tom Kwong, Leo Sai, Bill Tom, Donald Ginn Chong, Lincoln Mark, Tung Ling Yee, Harry Wong, Daniel Lim, Clifford S. Low, Hon Y. Lee, John Wing . . . — — Map (db m71450) WM |
| | American entertainer whose highly publicized gender change in the 1950s first brought widespread mainstream attention to transgender issues. — — Map (db m99810) HM |
| | For the last 5,000 years this particular site served as a vantage point to the southeast, overlooking an ancient salt water bay fed by fresh water streams.
Standing on this bluff three to four hundred years ago, looking southeast, you would have . . . — — Map (db m93013) HM |
| | At this point of rocks called
Clark’s Point
in the year of 1847
William Squire Clark
drove piles and built the first wharf
in the
Bay of San Francisco — — Map (db m72006) HM |
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This marker is composed of three panels; a center panel, a left panel and a right panel.
(Center Panel:)
San Francisco’s legendary Lillie Hitchcock Coit died in 1929, bequeathing one-third of her estate “for the purchase of . . . — — Map (db m69996) HM |
| | This 210 foot monument was built in
1933
with monies bequeathed by Lillie Hitchcock Coit to beautify the city she loved. Frescoes were painted in the interior of the newly built structure by local artists funded through the United States . . . — — Map (db m70020) HM |
| | On July 9, 1846, in the early morning, in “the days when water came up to Montgomery Street,” Commander John B. Montgomery – for whom Montgomery Street was named – landed near this spot from the U.S. Sloop-of-War . . . — — Map (db m143434) HM |
| | One August evening in 1966, transgender women and gay men banded together to fight back against oppression after a police officer harassed one of them at Gene Compton's Cafeteria. This confrontation was the first known full-scale riot for . . . — — Map (db m90982) HM |
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Powerful, profane, brilliant, fierce—think about Phil Burton and you have to think in big, dramatic terms. He wasn't a moderate man. Elected to Congress from San Francisco in 1964, he fought for workers' rights, for seniors and people with . . . — — Map (db m132243) HM |
| | Crane 14 is an American Hoist & Derrick Co. 50-ton Whirley Crane,
erected by the U.S. government in 1941 atop Slip 4 when the slip was
rebuilt in 1941 for the vastly expanded World War II shipbuilding program.
Crane 14 and 30 were nicknamed Nick . . . — — Map (db m159381) HM |
| | The marker is primarily composed of photographs and illustrations and the captions that accompany them. Photographs or illustrations are sequentially numbered from the top. Photographs may be enlarged by clicking on the maker images.
San . . . — — Map (db m73460) HM |
| | The land known today as Crissy Field has undergone many changes. Once a rich salt marsh and homeland of Ohlone people, it was later a landing site for Spanish and Russian explorers, a venue for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition and a . . . — — Map (db m63413) HM |
| | The view before you to the east is one of the greatest transformations at the Presidio since it became a national park in 1994. Originally a tidal marsh, the wetlands were filled in and leased to build part of the 1915 Panama-Pacific International . . . — — Map (db m132490) HM |
| | At this location, "1150" California Street, now the site of the Choir, stood William H. Crocker's Queen Anne style mansion (1888). The Deuxieme Empire-Italian Villa style mansion (1877) of his father, Charles Crocker, was at the N.W. corner of . . . — — Map (db m63582) HM |
| | Dahlia Hotel
c. 1907
Formerly Hotel Taylor
Hotel Thames
This building is listed in the
National Register of
Historic Places
Uptown Tenderloin Historic District — — Map (db m91514) HM |
| | The tenants' mobilization and resistance to the planned conversion of the hotel in 1979 to a tourist hotel provided the catalyst for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors enactment of the SRO (Single Room Occupancy) Hotel Anti-Conversion Ordinance. . . . — — Map (db m91001) HM |
| | After the 1906 Earthquake, dance ballrooms and academies such as the Arcadia, Fisher's and Golden Gate Ballroom replaced the demolished Alhambra Theatre on this site. By the 1930's, roller skates replaced dancing shoes. In 1942, the Golobic family . . . — — Map (db m91057) HM |
| | The 91st Observation Squadron Crissy Field was home to many daring pilots who made their mark on aviation history. Among these famous flyers were Major Dana H. Crissy, who died in a crash attempting to fly to the East Coast from here, and Major . . . — — Map (db m131186) HM |
| | The Army mounted twenty-one cannon here on the barbette tier. Soldiers could aim the cannon to defend against attack from land or sea.
"Yesterday, Queen Emma and suite, of the Hawaiian Islands....visited fortifications of the harbor...The . . . — — Map (db m102276) HM |
| | This level is called the "barbette tier" Cannon mounted "en barbette" have carriages which permit soldiers to fire them over a parapet (or wall). The parapet here is 7 feet 2 inches thick.
Fort Point's barbette cannon could sink any wooden ship . . . — — Map (db m129413) HM |
| | In 1907, the historic buildings on this block were built as a food cannery and warehouse by the California Fruit Canners Association, now known as Del Monte foods and headquartered in San Francisco. Called "Del Monte Plant No. 1", the facility was . . . — — Map (db m117070) HM |
| | From the mid-1880s onward, the diagonally cut block
bounded by Broadway, Kearny, and Columbus came
to be known tocally as the "Devil's Acre,” a place
described by the San Francisco Call in 1886 as "the
resort and abiding place of . . . — — Map (db m152779) HM |
| | (Panel 1)
On the night of April Thirtieth 1898 Commodore Deweys squadron entered Manila Bay and undaunted by the danger of submerged explosives reached Manila at dawn of May First 1898 • Attacked and destroyed the Spanish fleet of ten war . . . — — Map (db m15075) HM |
| | This marker is one of a series intended to commemorate the 150 years of the Port of San Francisco. It is composed of a captioned photograph and text entitled Did you know... mounted on a cylindrical metal pylon.
A San Francisco . . . — — Map (db m73134) HM |
| | This is the site of the original Dimaggios' Restaurant founded by the five DiMaggio brothers in 1937. Tom, the oldest of the 9 children of Sicilian immigrant parents, ran it until the youngest, Dominic Paul DiMaggio, took on the responsibilities in . . . — — Map (db m115951) HM |
| | The marker is primarily composed of photographs and illustrations and the captions that accompany them. Photographs or illustrations are sequentially numbered from the top. Photographs may be enlarged by clicking on the maker images.
You . . . — — Map (db m73347) HM |
| | Philippine national hero and martyr stayed at the Palace Hotel from May 4 to 6, 1888 in the course of his only visit to the Unites States.
Imbued with a superior intellect and an intense love for his country, Dr. Rizal sought to gain freedom . . . — — Map (db m71856) HM |
| | Founder of the Kuo Min Tang, Champion for Democracy, Father of the Chinese Republic and first President. Lover of mankind. Proponent of friendship and peace among the nations based on equality, justice and goodwill. — — Map (db m69511) HM |
| | This plaque is placed on the 250th anniversary of the birth of California’s apostle, Padre Junípero Serra, O.F.M. to mark the northern terminus of El Camino Real as Padre Serra knew it and helped to blaze it.
1713 - November 24 - 1963 . . . — — Map (db m32169) HM |
| | An electric streetcar line once wound along the cliffs past this very spot. From 1905 to 1925, the line extended nearly 8 miles, carrying passengers from the neighborhoods of San Francisco, through sand dunes and coastal scrub, to Lands End. . . . — — Map (db m107278) HM |
| | This is the second oldest known continually operating Saloon location in San Francisco and a centerpiece of the Mission Dolores Neighborhood. On this site Francis Daneal's "bar-room" was listed in the 1858 edition of the San Francisco Registry. . . . — — Map (db m110393) HM |
| | The staffs and management of the Far East Café welcome you into this enchanting restaurant that bring you back in time. Experience dining as it was once enjoyed by the people of ancient China. We serve fine Cantonese and Szechuan cuisine. Whether . . . — — Map (db m107302) HM |
| | In a simple laboratory on this site, 202 Green Street, Philo Taylor Farnsworth, U.S. pioneer in electronics,invented and patented the first operational all-electronic "television system" on September 7, 1927. The 21 year-old inventor and several . . . — — Map (db m20900) HM |
| | "It has been said that all great cities of history have been built on bodies of water - Rome on the Tiber, Paris on the Seine, London on the Thames, New York on the Hudson. If this is a criterion of a city's greatness, surely San Francisco ranks in . . . — — Map (db m92872) HM |
| | In Salute
to the Officers and Men, living and dead, of the
U.S.S. “San Francisco”
a warship named for our city, which though sorely wounded, emerged triumphantly from the Battle of Guadalcanal, November 12-13 1942 after . . . — — Map (db m71479) HM |
| | Poet, dramatist and political activist whose heroic opposition to totalitarianism resulted in his murder by Fascists during the Spanish Civil War. — — Map (db m99822) HM |
| | Muslim entertainer and martyred
political activist who fought to have
a free and open society for Iran, his
homeland, and for people
everywhere
فریدون فرخزاد — — Map (db m120372) HM |
| | The marker is primarily composed of photographs and illustrations and the captions that accompany them. Photographs or illustrations are sequentially numbered from the top. Photographs may be enlarged by clicking on the maker images.
In . . . — — Map (db m73476) HM |
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