Coit Tower
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Coit Tower is a 210-foot 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 193
View from Washington Square Park in 2024
Coit Tower in 2008, looking WSW
Robert Boardman Howard's cast concrete relief of a phoenix is placed above the main entrance to the tower.
Detail from Ray Boynton's fresco Animal Force and Machine Force, crediting the Public Works of Art Project
Lillie Hitchcock Coit
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Elizabeth Hitchcock Coit was a patron of San Francisco's volunteer firefighters and the benefactor for the construction of the Coit Tower in San Francisco, California.
Coit Tower
…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. The Art Deco tower, built…
Hitchcock mausoleum at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park
Statue of three volunteer firefighters, funded by Coit's bequest
Lillie Hitchcock Coit