Coit Tower
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Coit Tower is a 210-foot (64 m) tower in the Telegraph Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, California. The tower, in the city's Pioneer Park, was built in 1933. Lillie Hitchcock Coit left one-third of her estate to the city "to be expended in an appropriate manner for the purpose of adding to the beauty of the city which I have always loved".[3]
Coit Memorial Tower | |
San Francisco Designated Landmark No. 165 | |
Location | 1 Telegraph Hill Blvd., San Francisco, California |
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Coordinates | 37°48′09″N 122°24′21″W |
Area | 1.7 acres (0.69 ha) |
Built | 1933 |
Architect | Brown, Arthur Jr. |
Architectural style | Art Deco |
NRHP reference No. | 07001468[1] |
SFDL No. | 165 |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | January 29, 2008 |
Designated SFDL | 1984[2] |
The art deco tower is made of unpainted reinforced concrete. Architects Arthur Brown, Jr. and Henry Howard designed it. The tower has fresco murals by 27 different on-site artists and their assistants, plus two additional paintings installed after creation off-site.[4]
The tower was not designed to resemble a fire hose nozzle,[5] despite Coit's affinity with the San Francisco firefighters of the day, in particular with Knickerbocker Engine Company Number 5.