San Francisco Architecture Tours

San Francisco is a famous city in California. Tourists from all corners of the world are attracted to this city to witness its unique sightseeing options. The artistic monuments and other architectural wonders form an important part of San Francisco tourism. San Francisco’s architecture tours will lure you with its enigma and splendor. The tour takes you to places, which have unforgettable creations by yesteryear architects

Major architectural attractions of San Francisco:

The Architecture tours in San Francisco reveal some marvelous architectural wonders of the city. Some of the master pieces are:

1.Golden Gate Park: This beautiful park is larger than the Central Park of New York City. The park has some major attractions which makes it a favored tourist spot in San Francisco.

• Area: The Golden Gate Park covers an area of 1000 acres of land.
• History: The idea of the park was conceived in the year 1870. The park got its major attractions like, California mid winter exposition in 1894. Other features were added to the park in the later years.
• Main attractions of Golden Gate Park: Few architectural wonders were added in this park like Dutch Windmill, Carousel, Beach Chalet, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, Shakespeare Garden, Music Concourse, San Francisco Botanical Garden, California Academy of Sciences.
• Location: The Golden Gate is located in Lincoln Avenue of San Francisco.

2.San Francisco City Hall: This architectural beauty was constructed by two famous architects from Paris. The impressive building is almost 100 years old.

• Area: The building covers an area of about 500,000 square feet.
• Location: The San Francisco City Hall is located in the Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco.
• History: This architectural beauty was build from the year 1913 to 1915. The dome of this building is the fifth largest dome of the world.
• Main features of the monument: Supervisors meeting chamber, the dome of the building.

3.Fort Point: The Fort Point is also a famous architectural monument in San Francisco. The fort gives spectacular views of the Golden Gate Park.

• History: before the American Civil War, the fort point was built to protect the San Francisco Bay. The Fort point is a national historic site of United States.
• Main attractions of Fort Point: The Fort Point has several attractive features, the most important one being 126 cannons. The fort has been a part of an Alfred Hitchcock film.
• Location: The Fort Point is located in Presido in San Francisco.

4.Temple Emanu-El: The temple is an architectural attraction in San Francisco. It is one of the oldest Jewish temples in California. The temple had its first Jewish service in the year 1849.

• History: The temple was built in the year 1926. The architect who created this wonderful monument was Arthur Brown Junior. The temple was formed in a Byzantine Revival style.
• Location: Temple Emanu-El is located in Lake Street area of San Francisco.
• Special feature of Emanu-El: The temple looks beautiful with its dome which lies at the top of the temple. The inside features too are marvelous.

Popular Architecture Tours of San Francisco

San Francisco City Heritage: SF Heritage offers four public walking tours, on Saturdays at 1330 hours

Other architectural wonders in San Francisco:

Apart from the ones above, there are other architectural wonders such as:

Coit Tower
Pioneer’s Monument
Fisherman’s Wharf
Old St. Mary’s Church
Tien Hou Temple
War Memorial Opera House

There are interesting walking San Francisco architecture tours which you can be part of. Visiting these monumental beauties will help you know about the historical past and the architectural styles used in the past.

Last updated on 21/9/2010