Coit Tower
Coit Tower is a 210-foot (64 m) tower in the Telegraph Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, California. The tower, in the city's Pioneer Park, was built in 1933. Lillie Hitchcock Coit left one-third of her estate to the city "to be expended in an appropriate manner for the purpose of adding to the beauty of the city which I have always loved".[3]
Coit Memorial Tower | |
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Coit Tower with statue of Columbus in foreground | |
| Location: | 1 Telegraph Hill Blvd., San Francisco, California |
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| Coordinates: | 37°48′09″N 122°24′21″W / 37.80250°N 122.40583°WCoordinates: 37°48′09″N 122°24′21″W / 37.80250°N 122.40583°W |
| Area: | 1.7 acres (0.69 ha) |
| Built: | 1933 |
| Architect: | Brown, Arthur Jr. |
| Architectural style: | Art Deco |
| Governing body: | San Francisco Recreation & Parks Department |
| NRHP Reference#: | 07001468[1] |
| {{{DESIGNATED_OTHER1_ABBR}}} #: | 165 |
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| Added to NRHP: | January 29, 2008 |
| Designated {{{DESIGNATED_OTHER1_ABBR}}}: | 1984[2] |
The art deco tower is made of unpainted reinforced concrete. Architects Arthur Brown, Jr. and Henry Howard designed it. The tower has fresco murals by 27 different on-site artists and their assistants, plus two additional paintings installed after creation off-site.[4]
The tower was not designed to resemble a fire hose nozzle,[5] despite Coit's affinity with the San Francisco firefighters of the day, in particular with Knickerbocker Engine Company Number 5.
Photo gallery
View of Coit Tower, Alcatraz, and Marin County from Downtown.
The intersection of Filbert Street and Napier Lane on Telegraph Hill.
A closer photograph of Coit Tower from the parking lot.
Coit Tower elevator
A picture of Coit Tower at sunset.
Coit Tower from a below street.
Looking up at the tower
Coit Tower at Night
The murals
Industry both in the city and out in the fields was an important theme in the murals.
Notice the robbery on the bottom right, and the car accident in the center
Some of the headlines in the newspapers discuss the creating of the murals
References
- ↑ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2010-07-09.
- ↑ "City of San Francisco Designated Landmarks". City of San Francisco. Retrieved 2012-10-21.
- ↑ Pryor, Alton (2003). Fascinating Women in California History. Stagecoach Pub. pp. 86. ISBN 0966005392.
- ↑ "Coit Tower Murals - San Francisco, CA - Murals on Waymarking.com". www.waymarking.com. Retrieved 2020-08-12.
- ↑ Crowe, Michael F. and Robert W. Bowen (2007). Images of America: San Francisco Art Deco. Arcadia Publishing. p. 72. ISBN 978-0-7385-4734-3.
Other websites
- video of tower history and mural tour
- Coit Tower at Structurae
- San Francisco Highs at Coit Tower Archived 2015-11-13 at the Wayback Machine
- Coit Tower page in New Deal Art Registry Archived 2010-07-11 at the Wayback Machine
- Photography of Telegraph Hill Archived 2008-11-19 at the Wayback Machine by Bennett Hall