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Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco CA | Nearby Businesses


3301 Lyon St
San Francisco, CA 94123

(415) 563-6504

The Palace of Fine Arts in the Marina District of San Francisco, California, is a monumental structure originally constructed for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition in order to exhibit works of art presented there. One of only a few surviving structures from the Exposition, it is still situated on its original site. It was rebuilt in 1965, and renovation of the lagoon, walkways, and a seismic retrofit were completed in early 2009.In addition to hosting art exhibitions, it remains a popular attraction for tourists and locals and is a favorite location for weddings and wedding party photographs for couples throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and such an icon that a miniature replica of it was built in Disney's California Adventure in Anaheim.HistoryThe Palace of Fine Arts was one of ten palaces at the heart of the Panama-Pacific Exhibition, which also included the exhibit palaces of Education, Liberal Arts, Manufactures, Varied Industries, Agriculture, Food Products, Transportation, Mines and Metallurgy and the Palace of Machinery. The Palace of Fine Arts was designed by Bernard Maybeck, who took his inspiration from Roman and Ancient Greek architecture in designing what was essentially a fictional ruin from another time.

Historical Place Near Palace of Fine Arts

Alcatraz Island
Distance: 1.1 mi Competitive Analysis
B201 Fort Mason
San Francisco, CA 94123

(415) 561-4900

Alcatraz Island offers a close-up look at the site of the first lighthouse and US built fort on the West Coast, the infamous federal penitentiary long off-limits to the public, and the 18 month occupation by Indians of All Tribes which saved the tribes. Rich in history, there is also a natural side to the Rock—gardens, tide pools, bird colonies, and bay views beyond compare.

Fort Mason
Distance: 1.1 mi Competitive Analysis
Landmark Building A, Marina Blvd and Buchanan St.
San Francisco, CA 94123

(415) 345-7500

Fort Mason, once known as San Francisco Port of Embarkation, US Army, in San Francisco, California, is a former United States Army post located in the northern Marina District, alongside San Francisco Bay. Fort Mason served as an Army post for more than 100 years, initially as a coastal defense site and subsequently as a military port facility. During World War II, it was the principal port for the Pacific campaign.Today it is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and the site of several cultural facilities. It is a National Historic Landmark District with over 49 buildings of historic significance, spread over.GeographyFort Mason can be split into two distinct areas. The upper area, sometimes called Fort Mason, is situated on a headland and was the site of the original coastal fortifications. The lower area, Fort Mason Center, is situated close to water level to the west of Upper Fort Mason, and is the site of the former military port, with its piers and warehouses. The Marina Green lies to the west of Fort Mason, while Aquatic Park is to the east.HistoryEarlier private ownership by John C. FrémontThe nucleus of Fort Mason was a private property owned by John C. Frémont, the world-famous explorer of the US west, who also spearheaded the conquest of California from Mexico, and ran as the first presidential nominee of the extant Republican Party in 1856. As alleged in a 1968 federal lawsuit filed by his descendants over the 70-acre parcel then at issue, Frémont bought a 13.5-acre property in the mid-1850s for $42,000, and then improved it by about $40,000.

Golden Gate Bridge
Distance: 0.9 mi Competitive Analysis
311 Burma Rd
San Francisco, CA 94129

(510) 286-7167

San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park
Distance: 0.9 mi Competitive Analysis
2 Marina Blvd, Fl 2nd, Bldg E
San Francisco, CA 94123

(415) 447-5000

Established in 1988, San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park encompasses 34 acres, and has the most National Historic Landmarks of any unit in the National Park Service. In addition to the fleet of historic ships at Hyde Street Pier, the Park includes the Aquatic Park Historic District (Maritime Museum, beach, lawn area, and bleachers), a Visitor Center and the Research Center (in Fort Mason Center). Find us on: Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sfmaritimenps/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/sfmaritimenps YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/SFMaritimeNHP

Cowell Theater at Fort Mason
Distance: 1.0 mi Competitive Analysis
Fort Mason Center, Landmark Building A,
San Francisco, CA 94123

Inn at the Presidio; on the Main Post at the Golden Gate in San Francisco
Distance: 0.7 mi Competitive Analysis
42 Moraga Ave
San Francisco, CA 94129

(415) 800-7356

There are 22 contemporary accommodations of which 17 are classic one-bedroom suites with a separate sitting room, gas fireplace and sofa with queen bed. The balance of the 5 rooms are deluxe bedrooms. Third floor rooms boast San Francisco Bay & Golden Gate Bridge views. All guest reservations include a daily complimentary European-style continental breakfast buffet and evening wine & cheese reception. Overnight self-parking is available for a fee of $6 per night. Room rates range from $195 - $350 based on double occupancy. Children under 12 complimentary. Pets welcome. Guest rooms at the hotel are outfitted with the latest technology and amenities, in addition to gas fireplaces available in all suites. Guests may also enjoy relaxing at the outdoor patio with gas fire pit, on the porches, or in our reception lounge area. The Inn at the Presidio is the only hotel in the historic Presidio of San Francisco and is minutes from hiking trails, golf course, ocean and bay beaches, and the Golden Gate Bridge. We look forward to welcoming you to enjoy a stay with us in 2012.

Alcatraz
Distance: 1.2 mi Competitive Analysis
Golden Gate National Recreation Area Fort Mason, B201
San Francisco, CA

The Full House House
Distance: 1.2 mi Competitive Analysis
1709 Broderick Street
San Francisco, CA 94115

St. John's Presbyterian Church
Distance: 1.2 mi Competitive Analysis
25 Lake St
San Francisco, CA 94118

(415) 751-1626

Saint John's Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church at 25 Lake Street and 201 Arguello Boulevard in the Presidio Heights—northern Richmond District of San Francisco, California.It was designed a Gothic Revival Shingle Style, and completed in 1905.The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.HistorySt. John’s was first located on Post Street near Mason at the former St. James Episcopal Church. That church was built in 1866 and then sold in 1870 to St. John’s for $45,000. Dr. William Anderson Scott, the founder of San Francisco Theological Seminary, served as the first pastor from May 1870 until 1885. Membership in the church grew to 382 from 61 over this period. The church moved to the corner of California and Octavia Streets in 1888.Membership fell after the move and the church had difficulty paying its mortgage. Calvary Presbyterian shared the church while they were building a new church. Calvary helped pay the mortgage and the two churches discussed merging. Nevertheless, St. John's moved again in 1902, this time to the Richmond district with financial help from Arthur W. Foster.The new site was surrounded by sand dunes until row houses were built in the neighborhood. The first service was held on Easter Sunday, April 15, 1906, three days before the great San Francisco earthquake. Damage from the quake was not repaired until a year later.

Webster Street Historic District
Distance: 1.1 mi Competitive Analysis
2300 California St
San Francisco, CA 94115

(415) 600-3503

National Japanese American Historical Society
Distance: 1.6 mi Competitive Analysis
1684 Post St
San Francisco, CA 94115

(415) 921-5007

Allen Ginsberg "howl" Plaque
Distance: 0.8 mi Competitive Analysis
3115 Fillmore St
San Francisco, CA 94123

Landmark and Historical Place Near Palace of Fine Arts

Music Go Round
Distance: 1.0 mi Competitive Analysis
3336 Octavia St
San Francisco, CA 94123

(310) 405-2685

Greenwich Manor
Distance: 1.0 mi Competitive Analysis
1813 Greenwich St
San Francisco, CA 94123

Sundance Kabuki
Distance: 1.5 mi Competitive Analysis
1881 Post Street at Fillmore
San Francisco, CA 94115

(415) 346-3243

Sundance Kabuki is an independent film movie theater in the Japan Center complex in San Francisco's Japantown neighborhood. Formerly the AMC Kabuki Cinema 8, it was acquired by Robert Redford's Sundance Cinemas chain in 2006 as part of an anti-trust agreement allowing AMC to acquire Loews. Sundance renovated the theater, and reopened it under its current name in December 2007, as the chain's second theater.The theater was the first multiplex in San Francisco. It has been host to San Francisco's Cherry Blossom Festival activities, is one of a small number of theaters showing performances by the San Francisco Opera, and has screened several films for San Francisco International Film Festival and San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival as recently as 2011.

Fillmore West
Distance: 1.5 mi Competitive Analysis
1805 Geary Blvd
San Francisco, CA 94115

Fillmore West was a historic rock and roll music venue in San Francisco, California which became famous under the direction of concert promoter Bill Graham from 1968-1971. Named after Graham's original "Fillmore" location at the intersection of Fillmore Street and Geary Boulevard, it stood at the southwest corner of Market Street and South Van Ness Avenue. There is now a Honda automobile dealership at that location.HistoryThe Carousel Ballroom, was originally a big band dance palace. Later, Fillmore West booked primarily African American performers as part of the Chitlin Circuit, prior to 1967. Blues legend B.B. King played before his first primarily white audience there in February 1967, with Bill Graham promoting.The Carousel Ballroom was for a few months in 1968 operated by a collective formed by the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Big Brother and the Holding Company, as a social/musical "laboratory experiment". The "six-month run may well have corresponded with the height of the whole '60s Haight-Ashbury/San Francisco thing." Bill Graham then took it over.

Fillmore West
Distance: 1.5 mi Competitive Analysis
1805 Geary Blvd
San Francisco, CA 94115

Fillmore West foi uma histórica casa de shows em São Francisco, Califórnia, fundada pelo empresário de rock Bill Graham. Seu nome é advindo do Fillmore original, que funcionava nas esquinas da Fillmore Street e Geary Boulevard.Em razão da deterioração urbana da vizinhança e da capacidade exígua do Fillmore original, Graham decidiu mudar sua casa de shows para o local antes conhecido como The Carousel Ballroom e El Patio, nas esquinas da Market Street e South Van Ness Avenue. Renomeou o empreendimento para Fillmore West em contraste a seu Fillmore East, então em funcionamento em Nova York.No começo da década de 1970, Graham decidiu afastar-se da indústria musical, fechando a casa em 4 de julho de 1971 com uma leitura de poesia por Allen Ginsberg e concertos das bandas Santana, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Grateful Dead e Quicksilver Messenger Service. O documentário Fillmore, retratando os últimos concertos, e um LP triplo, Fillmore: The Last Days, foram lançados em 1972.