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California Street is a major thoroughfare in San Francisco, California. It is one of the longest streets in San Francisco, and includes a number of important landmarks. It runs in an approximately straight east-west line from the Financial District to
California Street is a major thoroughfare in San Francisco, California. It is one of the longest streets in San Francisco, and includes a number of important landmarks. It runs in an approximately straight east-west line from the Financial District to Lincoln Park
Lincoln Park is a park along Lake Michigan on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois. Named after US President Abraham Lincoln, it is the city's largest public park and stretches for seven miles (11 km) from Grand Avenue (500 N), on the south, ...
in the far Northwest corner of the City.
Description
California Street begins at the intersection of Market Street, Main Street, and Drumm Street in front of the Hyatt Regency Embarcadero Center, one block from the Ferry Building, then travels throughChinatown
A Chinatown () is an ethnic enclave of Chinese people located outside Greater China, most often in an urban setting. Areas known as "Chinatown" exist throughout the world, including Europe, North America, South America, Asia, Africa and Austra ...
, over Nob Hill, through Lower Pacific Heights
Lower Pacific Heights, also known as Upper Fillmore, is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California, between Pacific Heights, the Fillmore District, Laurel Heights, and Japantown. The neighborhood is centered on the commercial corridor of Fillmor ...
, Laurel Heights, and the Lake District. The street makes a slight bend at 8th Avenue, then parallels the edge of the Presidio of San Francisco
The Presidio of San Francisco (originally, El Presidio Real de San Francisco or The Royal Fortress of Saint Francis) is a park and former U.S. Army post on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula in San Francisco, California, and is part o ...
through the Richmond District until its dead end terminus just west of 32nd Avenue, at Lincoln Park.
Fifty-four blocks of California Street, from Van Ness Avenue westward to the dead end past 32nd Avenue, comprised the last major leg of the final 1928 alignment of the Lincoln Highway, the first road across America
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie ...
, leading out to the highway's western terminus in Lincoln Park
Lincoln Park is a park along Lake Michigan on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois. Named after US President Abraham Lincoln, it is the city's largest public park and stretches for seven miles (11 km) from Grand Avenue (500 N), on the south, ...
.
The route has four to six lanes for its entire length. A cable car line runs on the eastern portion from Market to Van Ness Avenue and a trolleybus line
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runs on the western portion between Steiner and 32nd Avenue.
Landmarks and points of interest
* Embarcadero Center *50 California Street
50 California Street (also known as the Union Bank Building) is a , 37-story office tower completed in 1972 at the foot of California Street in the Financial District of San Francisco, California. There is a plaza located at the base of the buil ...
* 101 California Street
101 California Street is a 48-storey, story office skyscraper completed in 1982 in the Financial District (San Francisco), Financial District of San Francisco, California. The tower, providing of Office, office space, is bounded by California S ...
* 150 California Street
150 California Street is a 24-story, office tower skyscraper located on California Street in the financial district of San Francisco, California.
History
Construction of the building was completed in 2000 and the building was designed by arc ...
* 345 California Center
345 California Center is a 48-story office tower in the financial district of San Francisco, California. Completed in 1986, the tower is the fifth tallest in the city after the Salesforce Tower, Transamerica Pyramid, 181 Fremont, and 555 Califor ...
(Loews Regency San Francisco
The Four Seasons Hotel San Francisco at Embarcadero is a luxury hotel that occupies the top 11 floors of 48 story office tower of 345 California Center at 222 Sansome Street in the financial district of San Francisco, California. Completed in 19 ...
)
* 400 California Street ( Bank of California Building)
* 465 California Street ( Merchants Exchange Building)
* 555 California Street
555 California Street, formerly Bank of America Center, is a 52-story skyscraper in San Francisco, California. It is the fourth tallest building in the city as of February 2021, and in 2013 was the largest by floor area. Completed in 1969, the ...
( Bank of America Center)
* 580 California Street
580 California Street is a high rise office building completed in 1987 in the Financial District of San Francisco, California. The postmodern, , 23 story tower is bordered by Kearny Street and California Street, and is topped with three faceles ...
* 650 California Street
650 California Street, also known as the Hartford Building, is a 34-story, 142 m (466 feet) office tower on the northwestern edge of San Francisco's Financial District. The tower is located on California Street on the edge of Chinatown, and no ...
(Hartford Building)
*Sing Chong and Sing Fat buildings at Grant and California, in Chinatown
A Chinatown () is an ethnic enclave of Chinese people located outside Greater China, most often in an urban setting. Areas known as "Chinatown" exist throughout the world, including Europe, North America, South America, Asia, Africa and Austra ...
* 600 Stockton ( Ritz Carlton hotel)
* 905 California Street (Stanford Court Hotel
The Stanford Court Hotel is a historic 393-room hotel located at 905 California Street on Nob Hill in San Francisco, California. The hotel sits at the intersection of California & Powell St, where the city's cable car lines also intersect.
His ...
)
* 800 Powell Street (University Club)
* Fairmont Hotel
* 999 California Street (Mark Hopkins Hotel
The InterContinental Mark Hopkins San Francisco is a luxury hotel located at the top of Nob Hill in San Francisco, California. The hotel is managed by the InterContinental Hotels Group. The chain operates over 5,000 hotels and resorts in approxim ...
)
* 1000 California Street ( Pacific-Union Club), the former Flood Mansion
The James C. Flood Mansion is a historic mansion at 1000 California Street, atop Nob Hill in San Francisco, California, USA. Now home of the Pacific-Union Club, it was built in 1886 as the townhouse for James C. Flood, a 19th-century silver ba ...
* 1075 California Street ( Huntington Hotel)
* 1111 California Street ( Masonic Auditorium)
* Huntington Park
* Grace Cathedral
* California Pacific Medical Center
In popular culture
Two novels are named for San Francisco’s California Street: ''California Street'' (1959) by Niven Busch, which documents the rise of a publishing magnate; and ''California Street'' (1990) byDonna Levin
Donna Levin (born September 4, 1954) is a San Francisco-based author, editor and writing teacher. She has published the novels '' Extraordinary Means'' (1987), '' California Street'' (1990), '' There’s More Than One Way Home'' (2017)'', He Co ...
. Levin's novel is the story of a psychoanalyst searching for a missing woman. Both novels use "California Street" as a metaphor for the milieu in which the stories unfold.
See also
* Cable car (railway) *Fillmore District
The Fillmore District is a historical neighborhood in San Francisco located to the southwest of Nob Hill, west of Market Street and north of the Mission District.Oaks, Robert F. San Francisco's Fillmore District. lectronic resource n.p.: Charles ...
* San Francisco Municipal Railway
External links
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