A $5 fee per person will be charged for a tour of the second floor only.
COIT TOWER FULL
A $10 fee per person will be charged for a full tour of the murals. Visitors will learn about the Tower’s inception, the Public Work of Art Projects’ influence, and history of the 26 artists.
The length of the tour is about 30 – 40 minutes. All coit tower artwork ships within 48 hours and includes a 30-day money-back guarantee. The tours are available for groups of at least 4 people but not more than 6 people. Shop for coit tower wall art from the worlds greatest living artists. As you wander the trails that wind around the tower and down the hill, you may hear the raucous chatter of the neighborhood’s most famous (and noisiest) residents, the flock of parrots featured in the 2005 film “The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill.”ĭocent-led tours are available to visitors with a complete tour of the Tower including the murals. Pioneer Park, which surrounds Coit Tower, was established in 1876 on the former site of the telegraph station. Telegraph Hill takes its name from a semaphore telegraph erected on its summit in 1850 to alert residents to the arrival of ships. Some of the most controversial elements were painted over, and the tower was padlocked for several months before the frescoes were finally opened to the public in the fall of 1934. When violence broke out during the 1934 longshoremen’s strike, controversy over the radical content in some of the panels became quite heated. The murals inside the tower’s base were painted in 1934 by a group of artists employed by the Public Works of Art Project, a precursor to the Works Progress Administration (WPA), and depict life in California during the Depression. Contrary to popular belief, Coit Tower was not designed to resemble a firehose nozzle. The tower was designed by the firm of Arthur Brown, Jr., architect of San Francisco’s City Hall. Coit died in 1929, leaving a substantial bequest “for the purpose of adding to the beauty of the city I have always loved.” The funds were used to build both the tower and a monument to Coit’s beloved volunteer firefighters, in nearby Washington Square.
The simple fluted tower is named for Lillie Hitchcock Coit, a wealthy eccentric and patron of the city’s firefighters. Its observation deck, reached by elevator (tickets can be purchased in the gift shop), provides 360-degree views of the city and bay, including the Golden Gate and Bay bridges. Coit Tower, a slender white concrete column rising from the top of Telegraph Hill, has been an emblem of San Francisco’s skyline since its completion in 1933, a welcoming beacon to visitors and residents alike. Socialite and patron of the San Francisco Fire Department, Lillie Hitchcock Coit, left a third of her legacy for the beautification of the city.
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