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Nob Hill
Located near the intersection of California and Powell Streets, this small yet affluent district is steep in San Francisco history. Nob Hill was the place where such noted tycoons as Leland Stanford, James Flood, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker each built their palatial homes in the late 19th century. Though most of these mansions were destroyed by the Great Earthquake and Fire of 1906, many of the top hotels in San Francisco, including the Fairmont Hotel, the Mark Hopkins International Hotel, the Stanford Court Hotel, and the Huntington Hotel, were subsequently built over their ruins. Other landmarks include historic Grace Cathedral, not to mention the many cable cars that ?climb halfway to the stars,? as Tony Bennett so famously sang. Known for its spectacular views of the City in virtually every direction, Nob Hill has also been immortalized in many films and TV series, including Bullitt, Vertigo, Magnum Force and Dirty Harry.
Like The Financial District, land is at a premium here, so condominiums, cooperative apartments, Tenancies-in-common, and multiunit buildings dominate the landscape. Many units are large scale, as they were often built between the two World Wars. Some, like the Gramercy Towers, for example, dot the landscape as contemporary icons.
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