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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 ...
The Camera Obscura is a large-scale camera obscura, in the Lands End area of the Outer Richmond District in western San Francisco, California.. It is located immediately adjacent to the Cliff House, perched on the headlands on the cliffs just north of Ocean Beach.
In archaeology, cliff dwellings are dwellings formed by using niches or caves in high cliffs, and sometimes with excavation or additions in the way of masonry. Two special types of cliff dwelling are distinguished by archaeologists: the cliff-house , which is actually built on levels in the cliff, and the cavate , which is dug out, by using ...
The Cliff House Sandstone consists of fine grained white to orange calcareous sandstone. It intertongues with the underlying Menefee Formation and the overlying Lewis Shale . [ 1 ] Where the Lewis Shale pinches out in the southwest San Juan Basin , the formation is indistinguishable from the Pictured Cliffs Formation and the name "Pictured ...
Cliff House, Ipswich, Suffolk, home of Thomas Cobbold (1708–1767) Cliff House, Marske-by-the-Sea, North Yorkshire, summer residence of Joseph Pease (1799–1872) India
Buxus sempervirens, the common box, European box, or boxwood, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Buxus, native to western and southern Europe, northwest Africa, and southwest Asia, from southern England south to northern Morocco, and east through the northern Mediterranean region to Turkey.
San Francisco's Cliff House Restaurant and Seal Rocks, ca.1900 View from the beach of San Francisco's Cliff House Restaurant and Seal Rocks, ca.1900. The stately six-story Victorian structure is perched on the edge of the palisade overlooking the ocean. An elevated wooden walkway leading to it is visible at right.
The centerpiece of the estate is a cluster of buildings that are set well back from the road. The main building is the farmhouse, which has at its core an 1826 farmstead. Now L-shaped in plan, it is 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 stories in height, with stone walls and wooden trim. The original farmhouse portion has a bellcast roof that curves down to shelter a ...