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Pacific Heights (often referred to as Pac Heights [4]) is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California, United States. It has panoramic views of the Golden Gate Bridge , San Francisco Bay , the Palace of Fine Arts , Alcatraz , and the Presidio .
San Francisco firm Homework transforms a grand historic house in Pacific Heights into a home brimming with color and life for a young family.
In 2003, the City of San Francisco along with the Maybeck Foundation created a public-private partnership to restore the Palace and by 2010 work was done to restore and seismically retrofit the dome, rotunda, colonnades, and lagoon. Within January 2013, the Exploratorium closed in preparation for its permanent move to the Embarcadero.
Opening day for the short lived operation of Alan Pegler's #4472, The Flying Scotsman along San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf. Seen running on Jefferson St., Pegler is in the engineers seat and riding the tender is Joseph Silva, manager of the State Belt RR. (1972)
Secondhand, San Francisco: Pier 24 Photography, 2016. ISBN 978-0-9839917-6-2. Exhibition catalog. Edition of 1000 copies. Collected, San Francisco, Pier 24 Photography, 2016. ISBN 978-0-9972432-0-8 Exhibition Catalog. Edition of 1000 copies. The Grain of the Present, San Francisco: Pier 24 Photography, 2017. ISBN 978-0-9972432-1-5. Exhibition ...
Historically, the area was part of the Western Addition.Long a middle-class neighborhood geographically and socially intermediate between Pacific Heights and the Lower Fillmore, the area became wealthier and more upscale with the escalation of San Francisco property values in the 1980s and 1990s, when the designation "Upper Fillmore" fell out of favor and "Lower Pacific Heights" came into ...
The following is a list of significant artworks by the American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988), who played a historic role in the rise of street art and neo-expressionism. During his short yet productive career, Basquiat created more than 600 paintings and 1,500 drawings. [1] He started creating sculptures and mixed media works in 1979.
The Legion of Honor was inspired by the French pavilion, a replica of the Palais de la Légion d'Honneur in Paris, at San Francisco's Panama–Pacific International Exposition of 1915. The museum opened in 1924 in the Beaux Arts–style building designed by George Applegarth on a bluff overlooking the Golden Gate. In 1995, the Legion of Honor ...