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Category: Telegraph HIll

  • 1360 Montgomery Street – A Streamline Moderne Dream

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    1360 Montgomery Street The Malloch Apartments Telegraph Hill The Spirit of California. Muralist Alfred Du Pont (also known as Dupont) was hired to design the images that grace the exterior 1360 Montgomery Street. Du Pont produced two 40-foot high silvery figures in sgraffito, or raised plaster, on the western facade of the building, and a third…

  • Parrots of Telegraph Hill

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    Telegraph Hill While this website is about art and architecture in San Francisco, every once in a while I spot a celebrity, and I thought I would bring them to you. This flock of feral parrots, primarily Red-masked Parakeets (Aratinga erythrogenys,) descended from escaped or released pets. The flock was popularized by a book and…