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  • Nob Hill – Pacific Union Club

    Nob Hill Pacific Union Club Flood Mansion  * This house, built in 1886 forJames Clair Flood, was the first Brownstone west of the Mississippi. It was the only great Nob Hill house to survive the 1906 Fire, saved just barely, thanks to its Connecticut brownstone walls.  The Pacific Union Club purchased it’s shell and William Bourn,…

  • Nob Hill – Dancing Sprites

    Nob Hill Huntington Park * * * * Dancing Sprites by Henri Leon Greber – Bronze – Circa 1900 This statue sits on the California Street side of Huntington Park on the top of Nob Hill. It was donated to the city by Mrs. James Flood in 1942. It is owned by the San Francisco…

  • Nob Hill – Fountain of the Turtles

    Nob Hill Huntington Park * * * * * * Huntington Park has a rich history steeped in the building of the Trans-continental railroad. The railroad men of California constituted some of the richest men in San Francisco. They were known as the Big four and their names were, Collis Huntington, Charles Crocker, Leland Stanford,…

  • S.F. Bicycle Coalition Mural

    Castro/Duboce Avenue/Nob Hill Back of 2020 Market Street   In 1972 BART built the Market Street subway, including Muni Metro. Along the Duboce Avenue tunnel entrance was a single eastbound lane for cars. During the 1994 closure of the street, for construction, The Bicycle Coalition worked to show that this street, which when used by…

  • Nob Hill – Resting Hermes

    Nob Hill Corner of Powell and California This bronze statue “Resting Hermes,” is a remnant of the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition that sits outside the University Club on California Street in San Francisco.  If you ride the cable car and hop on or off at the top of Powell street, walk over and take…