California Street (San Francisco)

California Street
	View from the top of California Street Looking towards the financial district with the Bay Bridge in the background
Length	5.22 mi (8.40 km)
Location	San Francisco
Coordinates	37°47′30″N 122°24′42″W / 37.791761°N 122.411739°W
East end	Market Street and Spear Street
West end	32nd Avenue

California Street is a major thoroughfare in San Francisco, California. Fifty-four blocks of California Street, from Van Ness Avenue westward to 32nd Avenue, comprised the last major leg of the final 1928 alignment of the Lincoln Highway, the first road across America, leading out to the highway's western terminus in Lincoln Park.

Description

California Street is one of the longest streets in San Francisco, and includes a number of important landmarks. It runs in an approximately straight 5.2 mi (8.4 km) east-west line from the Financial District to Lincoln Park in the far Northwest corner of the City. It begins at the intersection of Market Street and Spear Street in front of the Hyatt Regency Embarcadero Center, one block from the Ferry Building, then travels through Chinatown, over Nob Hill, through Lower Pacific Heights, Laurel Heights, and the Lake District. The street makes a slight bend in at the intersection of Cornwall Street and 7th Avenue, then parallels the edge of the Presidio of San Francisco through the Richmond District until its dead-end terminus at 32nd Avenue, at Lincoln Park. The route has four to six lanes for its entire length, and a cable car line on the Eastern portion from Market to Van Ness Avenue.

Landmarks and points of interest

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TWA

Photo for comparison

Vintage airline posters of San Francisco, featuring cable cars, looking east from approximately the intersection of California and Stockton towards San Francisco Bay and the western span of the Bay Bridge. A 2016 photograph with a similar perspective is included to illustrate the prominence of skyscrapers in the present-day Financial District.

Embarcadero Center
50 California Street
101 California Street
150 California Street
345 California Center (Loews Regency San Francisco)
400 California Street (Bank of California Building)
465 California Street (Merchants Exchange Building)
555 California Street (Bank of America Center)
580 California Street
650 California Street (Hartford Building)
600 Stockton (Ritz Carlton hotel)
905 California Street (Stanford Court Hotel)
800 Powell Street (University Club)
Fairmont Hotel
999 California Street (Mark Hopkins Hotel )
1000 California Street (Pacific-Union Club), the former Flood Mansion
1075 California Street (Huntington Hotel)
1111 California Street (Masonic Auditorium)
Huntington Park
Grace Cathedral
California Pacific Medical Center
Sing Chong and Sing Fat buildings at Grant and California, in Chinatown

External links

Photo tour of Market Street A photo tour of Market Street complete with narrative text.
JB Monaco Market Street Photo Gallery

v t e Streets in San Francisco
Numbered streets	Third Street 19th Avenue 22nd Street 49-Mile Scenic Drive
North–south streets	Castro Street Divisadero Street Fillmore Street Folsom Street Grant Avenue Great Highway Hyde Street Junipero Serra Boulevard Kearny Street Mission Street Montgomery Street Octavia Boulevard Park Presidio Boulevard Polk Street Powell Street Skyline Boulevard Rescue Row Stockton Street Stanyan Street Valencia Street Van Ness Avenue Vermont Street
East–west streets	Broadway California Street Cesar Chavez Street Commercial Street Filbert Street Fulton Street Geary Boulevard Haight Street Jackson Street Lincoln Way Lombard Street Union Street
Diagonal streets	Alemany Boulevard The Embarcadero Howard Street Market Street Columbus Avenue New Montgomery Street
Alleyways	Balmy Alley Belden Place Clarion Alley Jack Kerouac Alley Macondray Lane Maiden Lane Ross Alley
San Francisco place names etymologies

Description

Landmarks and points of interest

See also

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