Coit Tower
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Coit Memorial Tower
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Coit Tower with statue of Columbus in foreground
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| Location: | 1 Telegraph Hill Blvd San Francisco, California |
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| NRHP Reference#: | 07001468 |
| Added to NRHP: | January 29, 2008 |
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".[1]
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.[source?]
The tower was not designed to resemble a fire hose nozzle,[2] despite Coit's affinity with the San Francisco firefighters of the day, in particular with Knickerbocker Engine Company Number 5.
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Photo gallery [change]
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View of Coit Tower, Alcatraz, and Marin County from Downtown.
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The intersection of Filbert Street and Napier Lane on Telegraph Hill.
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A closer photograph of Coit Tower from the parking lot.
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Coit Tower elevator
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A picture of Coit Tower at sunset.
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Coit Tower from a below street.
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Looking up at the tower
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Coit Tower at Night
The murals [change]
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Industry both in the city and out in the fields was an important theme in the murals.
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Notice the robbery on the bottom right, and the car accident in the center
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Some of the headlines in the newspapers discuss the creating of the murals
References [change]
- ↑ Pryor, Alton (2003). Fascinating Women in California History. Stagecoach Pub.. pp. 86. ISBN 0966005392.
- ↑ Crowe, Michael F. and Robert W. Bowen (2007). Images of America: San Francisco Art Deco. Arcadia Publishing. pp. 72. ISBN 978-0-7385-4734-3.
Other websites [change]
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Coit Tower |
- video of tower history and mural tour
- Coit Tower in the Structurae database
- Coit Tower page in New Deal Art Registry
- Photography of Telegraph Hill by Bennett Hall
Coordinates: 37°48′09″N 122°24′21″W / 37.8024°N 122.4058°W
