Architecture of San Francisco

The C. A. Belden House, a Queen Anne Victorian in the Pacific Heights section on Gough Street Between Clay and Washington Streets. The house is on the National Register of Historic Places in San Francisco.

The architecture of San Francisco is not so much known for defining a particular architectural style, rather, with its interesting and challenging variations in geography and topology and tumultuous history, San Francisco is known worldwide for its particularly eclectic mix of Victorian and modern architecture. Bay windows were identified as a defining characteristic of San Francisco architecture in a 2012 study that had a Machine learning algorithm examine a random sample of 25,000 photos of cities from Google Street View.

Icons of San Francisco architecture include the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz Island, Coit Tower, the Palace of Fine Arts, Lombard Street, Alamo Square, and Chinatown.

Cars navigate Lombard Street to descend Russian Hill.

These Victorian rowhouses are in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco, California

Chinatown

The Conservatory of Flowers (front entrance) in Golden Gate Park

The Palace of Fine Arts at the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition, painted by Colin Campbell Cooper

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  Golden Gate Bridge

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  1851 San Francisco

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  San Francisco's Chinatown is the oldest and one of the largest in North America.

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  An example of the architecture closer to downtown.

See also

• History of San Francisco
• Neighborhoods in San Francisco
• List of tallest buildings in San Francisco
• Painted Ladies
• William Abbenseth, photographer of San Francisco architecture

External links

• Great Buildings Online: Architecture of the San Francisco Bay Area
• San Francisco Architectural Heritage, SF nonprofit
• List of Official SF Landmarks at Friends of 1800 Market website
• List of SF Landmarks with Photos at NoeHill.com
• San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection at SF Main Library
• Amy Westervelt. San Francisco Architecture & Landmarks at HowStuffWorks
• San Francisco Architecture Profiles on individuals and firms practicing during the first 100 years of San Francisco's growth.
• Rising Steel: Two Centuries Of San Francisco Architecture (From San Francisco City Guides: Walking Tour Descriptions)