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Forest Hill station is a
Forest Hill Station was built in a "restrained classical revival" style which has remained largely unaltered to the present. There are also a few decorative features suggestive of an Art Nouveau aesthetic, for example malachite colored accents placed over the elevator doors.
The station consists of two
Muni Metro
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station near the Forest Hill and Laguna Honda neighborhoods in San Francisco, California
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. It was originally built in 1916 to 1918 as part of the Twin Peaks Tunnel
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The eastern entra ...
, and is the oldest subway station west of Philadelphia
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and east of Istanbul
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The station was originally named Laguna Honda; lettering with that former name is carved on the station headhouse.
Scenes from the films ''Dirty Harry
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'' (1971) and ''Milk
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'' (2008) were shot inside of this station.
Station layout and architecture
Forest Hill Station was built in a "restrained classical revival" style which has remained largely unaltered to the present. There are also a few decorative features suggestive of an Art Nouveau aesthetic, for example malachite colored accents placed over the elevator doors.
The station consists of two side platform
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s next to the tracks far below the surface. Forest Hill Station is located deeper underground than any other Muni Metro station; so much so that, unlike other stations, most people use an elevator
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to reach the platform at Forest Hill. Unlike all other underground Muni Metro stations, which feature an underground concourse mezzanine on the first level down, and the platform on the second level down, Forest Hill's concourse level is in a station building
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on the surface.
Forest Hill and Eureka Valley stations were originally constructed with low platforms, as streetcars of that era had steps to load passengers from street level. However, the six new Market Street Subway
The Market Street subway is a two-level subway tunnel that carries Muni Metro and BART trains under Market Street in San Francisco, California.West Portal station, were built with high-level platforms for speedier level boarding onto the new Boeing LRVs. With Eureka Valley permanently closed, Forest Hill was left as the only low-platform station on the Muni Metro subway. Muni later modified the station with high-level platforms, elevators for handicapped access, and ventilation improvements. The $6 million project, which upgraded Forest Hill to equal the new stations while keeping its historic architecture, was completed in 1985.
Later changes
The station was temporarily closed from June 25 to August 24, 2018, during the Twin Peaks Tunnel shutdown. It was closed again from March 19 to August 22, 2020, and from August 25, 2020, to May 15, 2021, during theCOVID-19 pandemic
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.
See also
*List of San Francisco Designated Landmarks
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