Coit Tower
Coit Tower is a 210-foot (64 m) tower in the Telegraph Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, California, offering panoramic views over the city and the bay. The tower, in the city’s Pioneer Park, was built between 1932 and 1933 using Lillie Hitchcock Coit’s bequest to beautify the city of San Francisco. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 29, 2008. The Art Deco tower, built of unpainted reinforced concrete, was designed by architects Arthur Brown Jr. and Henry Temple Howard. The interior features fresco murals in the American fresco mural painting style, painted by 25 different onsite artists and their numerous assistants, plus two additional paintings installed after creation offsite.
Also known as the Coit Memorial Tower, it was dedicated to the volunteer firemen who had died in San Francisco’s five major fires. A concrete relief of a phoenix by sculptor Robert Boardman Howard is placed above the main entrance. It was commissioned by the architect and cast as part of the building. Although an apocryphal story claims that the tower was designed to resemble a fire hose nozzle due to Coit’s affinity with the San Francisco firefighters of the day, the resemblance is coincidental.
Nearby Locations:
Pioneer Park (San Francisco) (0.1 miles) Ina Coolbrith Park (0.5 miles) Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco (0.7 miles) Alcatraz Island (1.9 miles) "Full House" TV Show Set (2.3 miles) | Mission Dolores Park (3.1 miles) Grateful Dead House (3.2 miles) Crissy Field (3.2 miles) Presidio of San Francisco (3.4 miles) Golden Gate Overlook (3.9 miles) |
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Coit Tower, 1 Telegraph Hill Blvd
San Francisco, California 94133
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