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Cable Car
Museum
1201 Mason St.
Map
5 B3.
Tel
474-
1887.
@
1, 12, 30, 45, 83.
Powell-
Mason, Powell-Hyde.
Open
10am-6pm daily (Oct-Mar:
to 5pm).
Closed
Jan 1, Thanksgiving,
Dec 25.
7
mezzanine only.
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cablecarmuseum.org
This is both a museum and the
powerhouse of the cable car
system
(see pp106-7)
. Anchored
to the ground floor are the
engines and wheels that wind
the cables through the system
of channels and pulleys
beneath the streets. Observe
them from the mezzanine,
then walk downstairs to see
under the street. The museum
houses an early cable car and
specimens of the mechanisms
that control the individual cars.
The system is the last of its
kind in the world.
Entrance to San Francisco's Cable
Car Museum
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Grace Cathedral
1100 California St.
Map
5 B4.
Tel
749-6300.
@
1.
California St.
5
Choral evensong 5:15pm Thu,
3pm Sun; Choral Eucharist 8:30am,
11am, 6pm Sun.
7
8
see website
for times.
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gracecathedral.org
was not completed until 1964;
even so, the interior vaulting
remains unfinished to this day.
The building was inspired by
Notre Dame in Paris,
incorporating trad-
itional elements
such as a
rose window.
The interior
is replete with
marble and
stained glass.
Its leaded-glass
windows were
designed by Charles
Connick, inspired by the
blue glass of Chartres.
The rose window is made using
1-inch- (2.5-cm-) thick faceted
glass, which is illuminated from
inside at night. Other windows
are by Henry Willet and
Gabriel Loire. These
include depictions of
modern heroes such as
Albert Einstein. Objects
in the cathedral include
a 13th-century Catalonian
crucifix and a 16th-century
silk and gold Brussels
tapestry. The doors of the
main entrance are cast from
molds of Lorenzo Ghiberti's
“Doors of Paradise,” made for
the Baptistry in Florence.
Grace Cathedral is the mother
church of the Episcopal Diocese
of California and the third-
largest Episcopal cathedral in
the U.S. Designed by Lewis P.
Hobart, it stands on the site
of the Charles and William H.
Crocker mansion
(see p104).
Although building started in
September 1928, the cathedral
Stained-glass
detail
The New Testament Window,
made in 1931 by Charles
Connick, is placed on
the south side of
the church.
The Rose Window
was
made in Chartres by Gabriel
Loire in 1964.
The Carillon Tower
houses 44 bells made in
England in 1938.
The Chapel of
Grace
, funded by
the Crocker family,
has a 15th-century
French altarpiece.
The Doors of
Paradise
are
decorated with scenes
from the bible and portraits of
Ghiberti and contemporaries.
Entrances
