Coit Tower is a 210-foot (64 m) tower in the Telegraph Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, California, overlooking the city and San Francisco Bay. The tower, in the city's Pioneer Park, was built between 1932 and 1933 using Lillie Hitchcock Coit's bequest to beautify the city of San Francisco. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 29, 2008.
View of Coit Tower in August 2021
Coit Tower in 2008, looking WSW
Robert Boardman Howard's cast concrete relief of a phoenix is placed above the main entrance to Coit Tower, a memorial dedicated to the volunteer firefighters who died in San Francisco's five major fires.
Detail from Ray Boynton's fresco Animal Force and Machine Force, crediting the Public Works of Art Project
Telegraph Hill, San Francisco
Telegraph Hill is a hill and surrounding neighborhood in San Francisco, California. It is one of San Francisco's 44 hills, and one of its original "Seven Hills".
Telegraph Hill from San Francisco Bay
Telegraph Hill and the Coit Tower after sunset as seen from the East Bay
Feral parrots of Telegraph Hill