In all forty-three "official" hills in San Francisco, Nob Hill is perhaps the the best known. At the end of the nineteenth century, Robert Louis Stevenson called it "Hill of Palaces", due to the extravagant mansions of the city's rich elite. Originally, the hill was called Fern Hill, then Clay Street Hill and Knob Hill, the rock-like protrusions on top of which, in time to be suitable spłaszczono to live. Letter "K" from the name Knob soon removed and the remaining Nob Hill. Nob Hill has been nothing short of a "Hill of Palaces" for the city of San Francisco for the first two decades. 
unkempt place resembled a rock rubble overgrown by crooked oaks and wild shrubs przysypywane by dunes. The first residents camped in the wild and primitive shelters in buildings with a wooden frame covered with canvas. A common view was grazing on the slopes of cattle, goats and chickens. Below the top of Yerba Buena, mainly Stockton and Powell streets to the west and north of Portsmouth Square began to be inhabited since 1850. The streets in this part were not so steep, difficult access to horse-drawn vehicles, which was the main obstacle to expansion in the higher parts of the hill. In the 60s of the XIX century, the development of housing on the upper slopes. Taylor Street from Sacramento to the Pacific became a living link in a new elite of the city connecting them with a wealth of Nob Hill. Spectacular views of downtown and the bay and further protected from the wind by a ridge above the street Jones meant that this part of the Taylor street was so appealing. Lloyd Tevis, a leading lawyer and businessman, moved here from Rincon Hill in mid-1860. He followed him his brother, James Ben Ali Haggin in early 1870. 
What really removed any obstacles to the development of the hill that invention of the cable car - Cable Car. In 1873, Andrew Hallidie (inventor of the cable car), built the first line, along Clay Street from Kearny to Portsmouth Square to the Jones Street at the top of Nob Hill. In 1878, Leland Stanford, and several businessmen formed the California Street cable lines. The slopes of the hills started to grow rapidly and the residences of the wealthiest citizens of San Francisco grew wokół szczytu na ulicach California, Mason i Sacramento. W tym okresie najbardziej znanymi i wpływowymi osobistościami w mieście byli Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, Charles Crocker i Collis Huntington znani jako "Wielka Czwórka".
Zaczynali skromnie jako kupcy oferujący narzędzia i inne wyroby metalowe w Sacramento, ale inwestycje i spekulacje jakie robili przy budowie kolei przez góry Sierra Nevada, przeszły ich najśmielsze oczekiwania i uczyniły bogatymi. Posiadacze wielomilionowych fortun rozpoczęli budowanie olbrzymich domów, które miały dominować nad wzgórzem i miastem. Nob Hill przyciągnął również uwagę dwóch of the four men who were known as "Bonanza Kings" - James C. Flood and James Fair. They were the majority shareholders in the silver mines in Virginia City, Nevada, which brought huge profits. With time, become more wealthier than the famous Big Four but their names are less known in history. Only James C. Flood, in fact, built a mansion on the hill. It is the only one with all the houses, built on Nob Hill, who survived the fire after the earthquake in 1906. 
Historical walk around Nob Hill ...
1) 1201 Mason Street - Museum Tram Rope. [1887 , and 1909]
Invention cable car system (Cable Car) has proved a boon for urban transport development in San Francisco. At the end of the nineteenth century, the length of cable car line has grown to about 112 miles, serving a large part of the city. Today in the use of only three lines, with a total length of 10.5 miles, all in the north-east of the city. Many cities had ever cable car system, but when the city of Seattle has removed its lines in 1940, San Francisco, the system remains the last active. The current depot, which also partially acts as the city's cable car museum, is the last such place in the world. 
Although the inscription on the south side of the building informs "Ferries and Cliff House Railway - 1887" a significant part of the building is a reconstruction of the 1909 original from 1887. The chimney on the back survived the devastating earthquake and fire in 1906, losing only a few bricks from his crown. Until 1911 the whole system of power lines was powered by steam from a giant boiler, the smoke was discharged through the chimney. The building is now referred to as the cable car depot at the end of their work around 1:00 in the morning. By day is open to the public as a museum (it's free). The original cable trolley built by Andrew Hallidie in 1873 is located in the museum. Most of the wagons were destroyed in a fire) by the fire of 1906, but survived because he was at that time at the show in Baltimore. 
exhibition presents a few other old coaches, dating from 1876, as well as other cable car models at different scales, which appeared on the streets of the city in recent years. Both of the main room in the basement of the museum and can be seen on huge steel rope wheel drive wszystkie trzy linie kolejki. Mały sklepik oferuje książki i pamiątki. 2) Skrzyżowanie ulic Taylor i Washington (południowo-wschodni róg) - miejsce gdzie stał dom Jamesaa Ben Ali Haggisa. [1874 - 1906]
Ulica Taylor została kiedyś nazwana "najbardziej arystokratyczną ulicą w San Francisco." Była to pierwsza gęsto zaludniona część Nob Hill. Wielu z jej pierwotnych mieszkańców pochodziła z południowej części miasta, Rincon Hill i South Park. Jednym z nich był James Ben Ali Haggin, rodem z Kentucky. Nabył teren przy ulicy Taylor między Washington i Clay. W 1874 roku wybudował a huge 15 meter high house with 50 rooms and 9 suite on the southeast corner of Taylor and Washington. At the back were luxurious stables that could accommodate 40 horses. 
After the death of the wife of James Haggina in 1894, the house apparently remained free until 1906, when it was destroyed by fire. In 1909 the land on which stood the house was auctioned and divided into 16 parts. Houses and residential buildings erected natym place shortly after. 3) Intersection of Taylor and Washington streets (southwest corner) - the place where the house of William T. Coleman. [1850 - 1906]
4) Taylor Street (between Sacramento and California) - the place of the estate of Charles Crocker. [1877 - 1906] 
Charles Crocker, chief engineer during the construction of transcontinental railways, owned the entire block, a square of streets (with the exception of one small parcel) the limited Taylor streets, Sacramento, California and Jones. In 1877 he built a huge mansion in the Second Empire style of the street near the corner of California Taylor. Eleven years later built mansions in the north-eastern part of California and Jones Streets, as a wedding gift for his son William. 
One of the interesting history of San Francisco is associated with a small plot on the street in Sacramento, the Crocker was not able to redeem it. He stood there for a modest Victorian house and occupied by a German undertaker, Nicholas Yung. Angry denial Yung, who did not want to sell the property, built a 13-meter Crocker wooden fence around three sides of a neighbor's house, thus blocking views and access of light. Yung has not remained passive. On the roof of a house built a 3-meter coffin adorned with skulls, crossbones and the words of the late CC facing the Crocker residence. Yung A few years later moved to another part of town, but Crocker left the fence. Only after the death of two men, the dispute was settled and the heirs sold the land Yung Crockerów family. 
Despite the fact that the property burned down in 1906 along with the rest of Nob Hill, some things remained intact, such as painted black iron fence and stone chambers. 5) and California Street Taylor - Grace Cathedral. [1910, 1928, 1964]
Great Fire in 1906 destroyed the entire family Crockerów mansion, the remaining (only) ruins. Wealthy burghers decided to give the Bishops of the Church of San Francisco, land for construction of a new church. Grace Cathedral stands on the site stately home of Charles and William Crocker. The cornerstone for the cathedral was laid in 1910, but due to changes in projects and other problems halted work until the year 1928. Continuity of the work was interrupted by the shoulder but in the end funds in 1964, the cathedral was opened. The cathedral was designed by architect Lewis Hobart and is one of the largest neo-Gothic buildings throughout the United States. 
most distinctive feature are the huge bronze doors, which are a true copy of the fifteenth-century Florentine Baptistery gates made by Ghibertiego. These doors were originally intended to be installed in the War Memorial in Honolulu. 6) 1111 California Street - Masonic Temple. [1958]
7) Huntington Park. [1915] 
Huntington Park is named in honor of Collis P. Huntington (1821-1900), one of the "Big Four", which was the real brains group. While his friend Leland Stanford, was constantly in the spotlight of public opinion, the Huntington has worked behind the scenes, dabbled in lobbying for the Southern Pacific Railroad. Within the current park located Huntington House, two-story, neoclassical building, modeled after an Italian palace. Manor house with artificial marble was burned in 1906. The whole area was free until 1915, when his widow endowed him Huntingtonie city that made him a public park. In the middle of the park, surrounded by benches, find a copy of the fountains of Rome "Fontana delle Tartarughe." 
8) 1000 California Street - Flood Mansion & Pacific-Union Club. [1886] 
James C. Flood (1825-1889) was the only one so-called "Bonanza Kings" built a mansion on Nob Hill. The house was destroyed by fire in 1906, but the walls are made of sandstone, Connecticut survived. Flood bought the land in 1882 and construction took place from 1885 to 1886. among forty two rooms was living in the style of Louis XV and Moorish smoking room with a glass dome. Around the house was built fence of bronze, which stands to this day. 1906 years after the tragedy, Pacific-Union Club, an exclusive club male, which członkowie składali się z elity miasta, nabył i odrestaurował budynek w którym dokonano kilku zmian.
Korzenie Pacific-Union Club sięgają najwcześniejszych lat miasta. Pacific Club (założony w 1852 r.) i Union Club (założony w 1854 r.) połączyły się w 1880 roku. Wbrew powszechnemu przekonaniu, reguły klubu nie zabraniają kobietom członkostwa. Pacific-Union Club zrzesza 750 osób, i dopiero po śmierci obecnego członka, może być przyjęty kolejny. Budynek nie jest otwarty dla publiczności. 9) Ulica 1021 California - budynek the "Jewel Box". [1910 r.]
inconspicuous little house, called "pix", was built for Herbert Lava - a millionaire, who made up for sale on the property and various types of medical patents 10) 950 Mason Street - Fairmont Hotel. [1906]
called the Fairmont Hotel in honor of James G. Fair (1831-1894), a partner of James C. Flood, one of the "Bonanza Kings", who made his immense fortune in silver mines in Nevada. Fair was the least likeable character in the group. Conceited egoist, looking at their partners, mainly with disdain. Purchased San Francisco real estate for the amount of approximately $ 45 million. Fair was the owner of the entire area, where now stands the Fairmont Hotel. He planned to build a big mansion, but when he died in 1894, he had just built a fence. His eldest daughter, Tessa, inherited the land, and in 1902 began construction of the current hotel. Construction costs exceeded the findings and early 1906 years the brothers sold the unfinished building of Law. 
building was completed a week before the big earthquake, April 18, 1906. As the fire consumed the town center below, City officials moved up the hill and used the Fairmont Hotel as a temporary resident. Mayor Eugene Schmitz, General Frederick Funston and others zagościli not there for long: the fire engulfed the Nob Hill the next day. Hotel exterior walls survived intact, but the interior was burned. After a year of maintenance, the hotel officially opened on April 18, 1907. This was the first hotel built on Nob Hill. 
In 1908 the brothers sold the Fairmont Law Tessie Fair Oelrichs, who zachowła ownership until 1920. In 1945, Benjamin Swig, bought a controlling stake acquired in 1990 by the corporation. By years Fairmont Hotel, hosted U.S. presidents, foreign heads of state and celebrities of all kinds. In 1945, the United Nations Charter was drawn up in the Garden Room on the ground floor just off the lobby. 11) 999 California Street - Mark Hopkins Hotel. [1926] and place of residence of Mark Hopkins. [1878-1906]
12) 905 California Street - Stanford Court Hotel. [1912] and place of residence of Leland Stanford. [1876-1906] 
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