Coit Tower

	Coit Memorial Tower
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	{{{designated_other1_name}}} #165
	Coit Tower with statue of Columbus in foreground
Location:	1 Telegraph Hill Blvd., San Francisco, California
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
{{{DESIGNATED_OTHER1_ABBR}}} #:	165
Significant dates
Added to NRHP:	January 29, 2008
Designated {{{DESIGNATED_OTHER1_ABBR}}}:	1984

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 Tower in 2008, looking WSW

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

Coit Tower Media

Robert Boardman Howard's cast concrete relief of a phoenix is placed above the main entrance to the tower.
Animal Force, a mural by Boynton in Coit Tower (observation tower)
Machine Force, a mural by Boynton in Coit Tower (observation tower)
California Industrial Scenes, a mural by Howard in Coit Tower (observation tower)
Railroad and Shipping, a mural by Hesthal in Coit Tower (observation tower)
Steelworker, a mural by Wight in Coit Tower (observation tower)
Surveyor, a mural by Wight in Coit Tower (observation tower)
Industries of California mural by Stackpole in Coit Tower (observation tower); a tourist has been removed from the far left side, leaving a blurry brown patch where the camera attempted to reconstruct the mural.