Public Art and Architecture from Around the World

Category: Inner Sunset

  • St. Anne of the Sunset

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    850 Judah Inner Sunset Groundbreaking and construction on Saint Anne’s began in 1930 and the church was completed three years later.  The architect was William D. Shea. William went to work with his brother Frank  in 1890 and formed Shea and Shea. In 1907 William D. Shea became city architect. Ordinance No. 1767, under which…

  • Diversity at UCSF

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    400 Parnassus UCSF Medical Center Inner Sunset Sunarte by Juana Alicia Juana Alicia’s SANARTE: Diversity’s Pathway represents healing traditions worldwide, community cooperation, the internal work we do to heal ourselves as well as the social and natural movements that have brought about diversity, with a focus on the special history of UCSF. Born and raised in Detroit,…

  • Historic Old Clock

    Historic Old Clock

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    400 Parnassus UCSF Medical Center Inner Sunset * Carried by ship around Cape Horn, this Seth Thomas Clock was installed on the medical school of the affiliated colleges in 1897. Surviving the 1906 earthquake, it served the university and community for 70 years. Members of the UCSF family have made possible its restoration as a campus landmark. February 20, 1982 Seth Thomas…

  • Hippocrates

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    400 Parnassus UCSF Medical Center Inner Sunset Hippocrates by Costos Georgakas A sign on the base of the statue reads: Provided through the great generosity of Mr. and Mrs. John Nicholas Pappas.  Mr Pappas, A Greek emigrant from Kiparisi, Lakonia, Greece, and his wife, Jennie Pappas, donate this statue in appreciation of San Francisco the home…

  • Regardless of History

    Regardless of History

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    400 Parnassus UCSF Medical Center Inner Sunset Regardless of History by Bill Woodrow  Bill Woodrow (1948) was one of a number of British sculptors to emerge in the late 1970s onto the international contemporary art scene. Woodrow’s early work was made from materials found in dumps, used car lots and scrap yards, partially embedded in…

  • Birds at the J.P. Murphy Playground

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    Inner Sunset J. P. Murphy Playground 1960 9th Avenue Woman with Birds by Michael J. Carey This divine park, that includes several tennis courts and a wonderful rec room is surrounded by these giant hedges.  The hedges make a perfect backdrop for this sculpture. Michael Carey said: ““My intent with the sculpture for the J.…