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The Cliff House is a neo-classical style building perched on the headland above the cliffs just north of Ocean Beach, in the Outer Richmond neighborhood of San Francisco, California. The building overlooks the site of the Sutro Baths ruins, Seal Rocks , and is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area , operated by the National Park ...
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A previous incarnation of the Cliff House was noted to have had a camera obscura on its fourth floor in 1896. This camera obscura was destroyed when the restaurant burned down in 1907. When the third Cliff House opened in 1937, the owner was approached by businessman Floyd Jennings with the idea of adding a camera obscura to the cliffs beside ...
Entrance to Sutro Heights gardens, 1895 Sutro Heights gardens, 1895 Street map, 1937 From observation plaza, towards the second Cliff House. The 18-acre (7.3-hectare) park is on the site of the former "Sutro Heights" estate of Adolph Sutro, a Comstock Lode silver baron, and a major land owner/developer in and mayor of San Francisco.
In a Dec. 27 post on Cliff House of Folsom’s Facebook page, the most recent one available, the restaurant said it was hosting a “DJ and dancing” on New Year’s Eve.
Australian architectural firm Modscape designed this home so it would literally hang off a cliff. The home has not yet been built, but Modscape says if it is, it'll be five Australian architects ...
The oldest topiaries were started from boxwood (Buxus sempervirens) seedlings in 1912 shaped from California privet (Ligustrum ovalifolium). Boxwood is more commonly used for topiary than privet except at Green Animals. Boxwood is a dense small-leaved native evergreen, with dark green glossy foliage. Slow growing and shade tolerant.
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