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Mechanics' Institute is a historic membership library, cultural event center, and chess club housed at 57 Post Street, San Francisco, California. It was founded in 1854 as a mechanics' institute , an educational and cultural institution to serve the vocational needs of out-of-work gold miners .
In 1926, Olive Holbrook Palmer (1878–1958) inherited the estate which was then named "Elmwood" which she used as her summer home with her spouse Silas H. Palmer (1874–1963). [5] Their main house was in San Francisco, the 22-room Holbrook mansion located at the corner of Van Ness Street and Washington Street. [ 4 ]
SFpark is San Francisco's system for managing the availability of both on- and off-street parking. Taking effect in April 2011, the program utilizes smart parking meters that change their prices according to location, time of day, and day of the week, with the goal of keeping about 15% of spaces vacant on any given block. [1]
The main branch (Kalmanovitz Library) is located at the Parnassus campus, with secondary locations at the Mission Bay campus in the Rutter Center and Mission Hall. . Additionally, the library is affiliated with the ZSFG Library at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, the Fishbon Memorial Library at UCSF Medical Center, the UCSF Fresno Medical Library at UCSF Fresno Medical Education ...
The new library is approximately 7,500 square feet (700 m 2), and is the 27th branch of the San Francisco Public Library. [ 17 ] 455 Mission Bay Boulevard South, originally planned to be the headquarters of Pfizer 's Biotherapeutics and Bioinnovation Center (started construction August 5, 2008), [ 18 ] occupied by Nektar Therapeutics in ...
Access to the garage is provided by ramps on McAllister and Larkin. Overall dimensions of the parking garage are 317 by 374 feet (97 m × 114 m) and the floor-to-ceiling clearance ranges from 10 feet (3.0 m) on the uppermost level to 9 feet 3 inches (2.82 m) on the two lower levels.
The main bus line serving the Outer Mission is the 14 Mission: The bus line operates along the full length of Mission Street (from Embarcadero to Daly City). In addition to the 14, during peak hours, Muni runs two variations: the 14R Mission Rapid (rapid, fewer stops) and the 14X Mission Express, (Express, takes the freeway to and from downtown).
555 Mission Street is a 33-story, 147 m (482 ft) office tower in the South of Market area of San Francisco, California. [1] Construction of the tower began in 2006 and the tower was finished on September 18, 2008. [4] [5] It was the tallest office building constructed in San Francisco in the 2000s, and is the 25th tallest building in San ...