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Every purchase in our stores directly support the collections and exhibitions of the de Young and Legion of Honor museums.

Every purchase in our stores directly support the collections and exhibitions of the de Young and Legion of Honor museums.

Every purchase in our stores directly support the collections and exhibitions of the de Young and Legion of Honor museums.

Every purchase in our stores directly support the collections and exhibitions of the de Young and Legion of Honor museums.

Every purchase in our stores directly support the collections and exhibitions of the de Young and Legion of Honor museums.

Staff Pick

Portal: San Francisco's Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities

STAFF RECOMMENDS

"This book is a fascinating insight into the Ferry Building's design, creation, and history. 

In its heyday, it was not only the main point of entry to the city, but also its most recognizable landmark and best-selling postcard, "Visual shorthand for the city." (Equivalent to the Golden Gate Bridge today.) Mr. King takes us through the depressing Embarcadero Freeway years, and past the building's 2003 restoration as a market hall. As Bon Appetit magazine called it, "a kind of cathedral for the city's food-worshiping population." - Suzanne / Sales Associate

 


A two-time Pulitzer finalist explores the story of American urban design through San Francisco’s iconic Ferry Building. 


Conceived in the Gilded Age, the Ferry Building opened in 1898 as San Francisco’s portal to the world—the terminus of the transcontinental railway and a showcase of civic ambition. In silent films and World’s Fair postcards, nothing said “San Francisco” more than its soaring clocktower. But as acclaimed architectural critic John King recounts in Portal, the rise of the automobile and double-deck freeways severed the city from its beloved structure and its waterfront—a connection that required generations to restore. Paperback, 320 pages.

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