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The Historic Feusier Octagon House Is For Sale. Here Are All 3 Of SF's Eight-Sided Homes That Sold Prior All around the world architects use the octagon to beautify their buildings. The Dome of the Rock has a characteristic octagonal plan. The Tower of the Winds in Athens is another example of an octagonal structure. It's no surprise that San Francisco, a city influenced by European ideas and culture, is home to buildings like the Feusier Octagon house, now for sale at $8.6 million. Feusier Octagon House, 1067 Green St, San Francisco, California by Sanfranman59 (Wiki Commons) In the 1850s, th...

Travel notes: Carmel? Monterey? Pacific Grove an ideal in-between getaway Posted: May 23, 2021 Beach rock formation. A plaque honoring the memory of singer John Denver, who died in a plane crash at the site. Last year, Alaska Airlines introduced a direct flight to Monterey, Calif. We have often visited that locale, particularly when our son attended Santa Clara University and then started to work nearby for Apple. (Now, he’s been working for Apple for a dozen years, far away in Cork City, Ireland, but that’s another story). Our prior routine was to fly to San Jose, say hi to h...

Please Donate History of the Point Lobos Marine Exchange Building. The Octagon House at Land's End The old octagonal Marine Exchange building at Lands End, February 1927. - by John Martini September 2009 Nearly engulfed by trees above the Land's End parking lot is an overlooked piece of San Francisco's maritime history, the octagonal-shaped Point Lobos Marine Exchange Lookout Station. Completed in early 1927, it was the last of a series of stations that stretched back to the Gold Rush whose function was to watch for approaching ships and announce their arrival. Once a ship was spotted, the...

Please Donate The story of the creation of the Golden Gate Bridge. Streetwise - Birth of a Bridge by Frank Dunnigan Frank Dunnigan, WNP member and columnist. - From the mid-1840s, when Captain John Fremont declared California’s independence from Mexico, local land speculators were eyeing the hills of today's Marin County, and wondering just how the area could be linked to the community of Yerba Buena, as San Francisco was then known—for both public and personal benefit. A bridge was the ideal solution, but the swift currents and the depth of the waters at the entrance to San Francisco ...