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Miss Hamlin's School For Girls
The Hamlin School (also known as Hamlin School) is a private day school for girls in Kindergarten through eighth grade. It is the oldest nonsectarian, independent, day school for girls in the Western United States. Its school campus is located at 2120 Broadway, San Francisco, near Pacific Heights. History In April 1896 Sarah Dix Hamlin purchased the Van Ness Seminary School located at 1849 Jackson Street, San Francisco. In 1898, the school was renamed Miss Hamlin's School for Girls. In 1907, Hamlin moved to a mansion located at 2230 Pacific Avenue in San Francisco. On August 25, 1923, the Hamlin school founder, Sarah Dix Hamlin died after a short illness. Her sister, Catherine "Kate" Hamlin operated the Hamlin School after Sarah's death. In 1927, Corenelia M. Stanwood became the new principal of the school. In 1928, Hamlin moved to its present location, a three-story Italian Baroque Revival mansion at 2120 Broadway in San Francisco. The mansion was built in 1901 by James Lear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Francisco
San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the List of California cities by population, fourth most populous in California and List of United States cities by population, 17th most populous in the United States, with 815,201 residents as of 2021. It covers a land area of , at the end of the San Francisco Peninsula, making it the second most densely populated large U.S. city after New York City, and the County statistics of the United States, fifth most densely populated U.S. county, behind only four of the five New York City boroughs. Among the 91 U.S. cities proper with over 250,000 residents, San Francisco was ranked first by per capita income (at $160,749) and sixth by aggregate income as of 2021. Colloquial nicknames for San Francisco include ''SF'', ''San Fran'', ''The '', ''Frisco'', and '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
