San Francisco's Coit Tower

by John Telfer

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San Francisco's Coit Tower

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John Telfer

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Photograph - Photograph

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While on a business trip in San Francisco I was heading down to the Piers to look at some of the scenic places like Alcatraz Prison and other things I might come across. While in the Telegraph Hill District where I could see the whole city of San Francisco I came across this 210 tall and narrow tower. I looked and read the sign that called it Coit Tower and that it was built in 1933, and named after Lillie Coit who left one third of her estate to the city of San Francisco to help beautify the city. The front of the Coit Tower was covered with gorgeous looking green tall trees with a round bed of various flowers in front of the stairs leading up to the tower. In the middle of the flower bed was a statue of Lillie Coit in her honor. I climbed to the top of the tower and was taken back by the beauty of San Francisco and how much you could see from the Coit Tower sitting a top of the Telegraph Hill District. For more information on the Coit Tower please fill free to read below;
Coit Tower, also known as the Lillian Coit Memorial 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 using Lillie Hitchcock Coit's bequest to beautify the city of San Francisco; at her death in 1929 Coit left one-third of her estate to the city for civic beautification. The tower was proposed in 1931 as an appropriate use of Coit's gift. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 29, 2008.
The art deco tower, built of unpainted reinforced concrete, was designed by architects Arthur Brown, Jr. and Henry Howard, with fresco murals by 27 different on-site artists and their numerous assistants, plus two additional paintings installed after creation off-site. Although an apocryphal story claims that the tower was designed to resemble a fire hose nozzle[3] due to Coit's affinity with the San Francisco firefighters of the day, the resemblance is coincidental.
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