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Looking east from the Steiner Street pedestrian overpass. Geary Boulevard (designated as Geary Street east of Van Ness Avenue) is a major east–west 5.8-mile-long (9 km) thoroughfare in San Francisco, California, United States, beginning downtown at Market Street near Market Street's intersection with Kearny Street, and running westbound through downtown, the Civic Center area, the Western ...
American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) / 37.787017°N 122.410286°W / 37.787017; -122.410286. The American Conservatory Theater ( ACT) is a nonprofit theater company in San Francisco, California, United States, that offers both classical and contemporary theater productions. It also has an attached acting school .
John W. Geary. John White Geary (December 30, 1819 – February 8, 1873) was an American lawyer, politician, Freemason, and a Union general in the American Civil War. He was the final alcalde and first mayor of San Francisco, a governor of the Kansas Territory, and the 16th governor of Pennsylvania.
Fillmore District, San Francisco. / 37.78086; -122.42542. The Fillmore District is a historical neighborhood in San Francisco located to the southwest of Nob Hill, west of Market Street and north of the Mission District. [ 4] The Fillmore District began to rise to prominence after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
Geary Subway. The Geary Subway is a proposed rail tunnel underneath Geary Boulevard in San Francisco, California. Several plans have been put forward as early as the 1930s to add a grade separated route along the corridor for transit. San Francisco Municipal Railway bus routes on the street served 52,900 daily riders in 2019, the most of any ...
Designated CHISL. June 18, 1975. Designated SFDL. February 28, 1975. Goodman Building, also known as the Emeric Building and the St. Beryl Hotel, [4] is a historic commercial and residential building, built in 1860 and located at 1117 Geary Boulevard in Cathedral Hill, San Francisco, California. [5]
The San Francisco Public Library is the public library system of the city and county of San Francisco. The Main Library is located at Civic Center, at 100 Larkin Street. The library system has won several awards, such as Library Journal 's Library of the Year award in 2018. [ 4] The library is well-funded due to the city's dedicated Library ...
Western Libraries is the library system of the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario. In 1898, the university Senate appointed James Waddell Tupper as the University of Western Ontario's first University Librarian. [ 1] In 1918, John Davis Barnett founded the Western Libraries collection with a donation of 40,000 books from his ...