The Landing at Leidesdorff, at the intersection of Commercial and Leidesdorff streets, features a ground mural tracing the eighteen-fifties city shoreline. This pedestrian space marks the former location of the Long Wharf, a Gold Rush era…
Gold Rush Barbary Coast
This walk traces San Francisco's original 1849 shoreline, leading you through historic alleyways, past buried Gold Rush ships, and into the heart of the wild Barbary Coast.
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1. Map of Old San Francisco Shoreline and Leidesdorff Mural
2. Museum of San Francisco
The Museum of San Francisco at six hundred and eight Commercial Street stands on the footprint of the first branch mint in the American West. Its structure incorporates the remains of the site where the federal government processed massive…
3. Portsmouth Square Park
Portsmouth Square is defined by its tiered design featuring red-painted columns and curved, tiled roofs that rise above the surrounding street level. This one-block space is the oldest public plaza in San Francisco, dating back to eighteen…
4. Transamerica Pyramid
The Transamerica Pyramid is a forty-eight-story skyscraper in the Financial District defined by its tapering, four-sided form and two wings that extend from its upper levels. Completed in nineteen seventy-two, the building stands eight…
5. Belli Building
The Belli Building at seven twenty-two Montgomery Street stands out for its deep, historic foundation in what was once the mud of Yerba Buena Cove. Originally built around eighteen forty-nine or eighteen fifty as a tobacco warehouse, it…
6. Hotaling Building
The Hotaling Building at four hundred fifty-one Jackson Street is a brick structure with a cast iron facade that stands out for surviving the nineteen oh six earthquake and fire. Built in eighteen sixty-six for Anson Parsons Hotaling, the…
7. The Old Ship Saloon
The Old Ship Saloon at two ninety-eight Pacific Avenue has a history linked to the California Gold Rush. The foundation of this site dates to eighteen forty-nine when a three-masted whaling ship called the Arkansas ran aground on Alcatraz.