Day Two

Telegraph Hill • North Waterfront • Russian Hill • Nob Hill

Start your day by buying an $11 all-day Muni Passport, good on all buses, streetcars and cable cars. Head to Coit Tower, completed in 1934 by Arthur Brown Jr., for spectacular panoramas and, inside the tower, the restored WPA murals.

Below the tower on Montgomery is the Malloch Apartment Building (1360 Montgomery), a 1937 Art Moderne building by J.S. Malloch featured in the 1946 Humphrey Bogart movie “Dark Passage.” Proceed down the Filbert Steps, passing the Grace Marchant Gardens and some of San Francisco’s oldest houses. Watch overhead for the wild parrots that live in the garden. At the bottom of Telegraph Hill is Levi Plaza and the site of Levi corporate headquarters, designed by Helmuth, Obata & Kassabaum/ Howard Friedman/Arthur Gensler in 1982.

Have lunch on the west side of the Embarcadero at Fog City Diner, then follow the Embarcadero north to The Cannery, built in 1909 and remodeled by Joseph Esherick in 1968. Nearby is Ghirardelli Square, originally an 1860s chocolate factory, remodeled in the mid-1960s by Wurster, Bernardi & Emmons, with landscape design by Lawrence Halprin & Associates. Nearby is the San Francisco Maritime Museum, a spectacular streamline moderne building with nautical references designed in 1939 by William Mooser Sr. & Jr. as an aquatic recreation center. The museum will be closed for renovations until 2009.

Take the Hyde St. cable car to California St. on Nob Hill to see the 1906 Fairmont Hotel on Mason St., designed by the Reid Brothers; the 1886 Pacific Union Club, designed by Augustus Laver and renovated in 1910 by Willis Polk; the Huntington Park Hotel; and the 1910 Grace Cathedral, designed by George Bodley with Lewis Hobart. At Weeks and Day’s 1925 Intercontinental Mark Hopkins Hotel, visit the Top of the Mark for a drink while enjoying one of the most spectacular views of the city.

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