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7 Nob Hill San Francisco. Designed by beneath the city’s streets.
Lewis P. Hobart, this building Visitors can observe them from
Map E3. @ 1, 12, 30, 45, 83.
 California St, Powell–Mason, was inspired by Notre Dame in the mezzanine, then walk down
Powell–Hyde. Paris. Preparatory work began to look under the street. The
in 1928, but the cathedral was museum also houses an early
Nob Hill is the highest summit not completed until 1964. Its cable car and the mechanisms
of the city itself, rising 338 ft entrance doors are cast from that control individual cars.
(103 m) above the bay. It is molds of Ghiberti’s “Doors of
San Francisco’s most celebrated Paradise,” made for the Baptistry R Grace Cathedral
hilltop, famous for its cable cars, in Florence. 1100 California St. Tel (415) 749­6300.
plush hotels, and views. The A short distance north of 5 Choral evensong: see web site for
steep slopes kept prominent Nob Hill is the Cable Car Barn, schedule; Choral Eucharist: 11am Sun.
citizens away until the opening erected in 1909, which garages ∑ gracecathedral.org
of the California Street cable car cable cars at night. It is a repair E Cable Car Barn
line in 1878. The rich then shop, museum, and power­ 1201 Mason St. Tel (415) 474­1887.
flocked to build homes here, house of the cable car system. Open summer: 10am–6pm daily;
including the “Big Four” railroad Anchored to the ground floor winter: 10am–5pm daily. Closed Jan
barons, who were among its are the engines and wheels that 1, Easter, Thanksgiving, Dec 25. 7
richest tenants. The name “Nob wind the cables through the mezzanine only. Video show: =
Hill” is thought to come from system of channels and pulleys ∑ cablecarmuseum.com
the Indian word nabob,
meaning “chieftain”. Sadly, all Grace Cathedral
the grand mansions were
leveled in the great earthquake The interior of this Gothic­style cathedral is replete with
and fire of 1906. The only marble and beautiful stained glass. The leaded windows
building that survived was the were designed by Charles Connick, using the blue glass of
home of James C. Flood, which Chartres as his inspiration. The rose window has thick faceted
is now the Pacific Union Club. glass, which is illuminated from the inside at night. Other
Nob Hill still attracts the windows are by Henry Willet and Gabriel Loire, and include
affluent to its hotels, which depictions of Albert Einstein and astronaut John Glenn. The
recall the opulence of the cathedral also features a 13th­century Catalonian crucifix
Victorian era and offer fine views and a 16th­century Brussels tapestry, and is popular for its
of the city. Grace Cathedral is choral evensong; check website for schedule.
the main Episcopal church in
The New Testament
Window, made in 1931 by The Rose Window was The Carillon Tower
Charles Connick, is placed on made in Chartres by houses 44 bells made
the south side of the church. Gabriel Loire in 1964. in England in 1938.

The Chapel of Grace,
funded by the The Doors of Paradise
Crocker family, has are decorated with scenes
a 15th­century from the Bible and portraits of
French altarpiece. Ghiberti and his contemporaries.
Entrances

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