In the late 19th century, 855 Battery Street was the San Francisco headquarters for the candy and cookie manufacturer American Biscuit Company, which later became National Biscuit and renamed Nabisco. The structures comprising the plant were destroyed in 1906, and soon thereafter the present building was constructed of board-formed reinforced
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The Ritz-Carlton Hotel is a landmark building on Nob Hill dating to 1909. The building was originally designed by Napoleon LeBrun and Sons to be the Pacific Coast headquarters of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. After subsequent additions, the building reopened in 1991 as the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. The U-shaped building
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300 Montgomery Street is the result of two distinct design campaigns which occurred in 1917 and 1941. The oldest portion of 300 Montgomery Street, originally a Bank of America, was designed by George Kelham. In 1941, the building was significantly expanded, doubling its size to fill the entire street wall
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The San Buenaventura Mission was the ninth and last mission established by Fray Junipero Serra in 1782. Construction of the Mission Complex began in 1792 and utilized an aqueduct system that transported water from San Antonio Creek approximately seven miles away. During the winter seasons of 2004 and 2005, heavy
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Originally built in the early 19th century, Mission San Antonio de Padua is one the three California missions founded by Father Junipero Serra. By the late 1800s, the mission was vacated and the adobe structures fell into disrepair. Between 1948 and 1952, the mission underwent a significant restoration, including the
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Constructed between 1939 and 1941, the 285-foot tall Hoover Tower is the tallest building on Stanford University’s campus and stands as one of its most prominent landmarks. Built to house the Herbert Hoover Library of War and Peace, the building is a steel frame structure encased in concrete with concrete
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Now a unique seven-story office building, 501 Second Street was originally built as a warehouse in 1925. Located along the Second Street Corridor, the building underwent a complete renovation in 1985 including a seismic upgrade and the addition of three floors and a terrace. Now part of the rapidly expanding
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Designed in 1912 by Benjamin Greer McDougall for the Standard Oil Company, 115 Sansome is located at the corner of Bush and Sansome Streets in the Financial District of San Francisco. This fourteen-story building has a three-part architectural composition detailed in the Beaux-Arts style. The base of the building is
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The National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers (NHDVS) Monument is located at the Los Angeles National Cemetery at 950 South Sepulveda Boulevard. The three-tiered granite obelisk is situated at the cemetery street corners of San Juan Hill Avenue and Buena Vista Avenue. The monument stands about 27 feet high on
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Calvary Presbyterian Church was dedicated on January 14, 1855, in San Francisco’s Financial District. In 1869, a larger sanctuary was built for the congregation in Union Square, now the lobby of the St. Francis hotel. This church was disassem-bled and rebuilt at its current location in Pacific Heights in 1904.
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Temelec Hall is a historic mansion in Sonoma, California built in 1858 by Captain Granville P. Swift, the great nephew of American folk hero, David Boone. The main structure, built in the Greek Revival Style, is three stories in height and was constructed with locally quarried sandstone. At the first
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The Civil War Soldiers Monument is currently located at the Los Angeles National Cemetery at 950 South Sepulveda Boulevard. The cast zinc monument was first erected near the Los Angeles Southern Pacific Railway Station in 1896 and was later moved twice. Its current location is in the center of the
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