San Francisco’s Ohlone Shellmounds

Natives have inhabited the San Francisco Bay area for thousands of years, and physical reminders of their complex cultures still remain, just under city’s busy streets.

The San Francisco Bay area is the ancestral home of the Ohlone people, known ...

San Francisco de Asís Mission Church

San Francisco de Asís Mission Church, c. 1772, is one of the best known and most photographed churches in New Mexico. The Spanish Colonial adobe building has twin bell towers and an arched portal entrance that overlooks an enclosed ...

Union Square, San Francisco

During the gold rush of 1849, San Francisco’s mayor set aside the land that is now Union Square for public use. The square later got its name from the large number of pro-Union rallies held here during the Civil War. ...

Palace Hotel, San Francisco

The original Palace Hotel that stood on this site was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire. The current building, designed by architects Trowbridge & Livingston, was completed in 1909. Occupying most of a city block, this nine-story ...

Bank of Italy Building, San Francisco

In 1908, this eight-story building became the headquarters of A. P. Giannini’s Bank of Italy (precursor of the Bank of America) after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire destroyed the original bank building in nearby North Beach. ...

Heavy Cruiser USS San Francisco (CA38)

Honor-Courage-Commitment

These are the remains of the flag bridge of the cruiser USS San Francisco, badly damaged in battle against Japanese naval forces on the night of November 12-13, 1942. The shrapnel-torn holes in her bridge bear mute testimony ...

San Francisco Brewing Company

This building is the last of the Barbary Coast saloons. Prior to the great earthquake and fire of 1906, this was the site of the infamous Billy Goat Saloon, operated by Pigeon-Toed Sal.

After reconstruction, the original Andromeda Saloon opened ...

National Historic Landmark- San Francisco De Assisi Mission

National Historic Landmark - San Francisco De Assisi Mission Church

Constructed between 1772 and 1816, this is a large and excellent example of the New Mexican Spanish Colonial church.

The white stuccoed adobe walls are exceptionally massive.

San Francisco

Located on the San Francisco Peninsula, overlooking the Pacific Ocean, and inhabited by Native Americans for thousands of years prior to its discovery by the Spanish, San Francisco is one of the largest and most diverse cities in the United ...

San Francisco Lawn Bowling Clubhouse and Greens

A San Francisco City

Landmark No. 181

California's

First Municipal

Lawn Bowling Greens

Established 1901

Marker is on Bowling Green Drive north of Martin Luther King Jr Drive.

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