T he parking lot at San Francisco’s Coit Tower will soon be closed for a repaving project that got under way Tuesday — a ...

No one disputes their historical value. But the works — along with their iconic Art Deco home, San Francisco’s fluted Coit Tower — are in trouble. Mineral blooms on the concrete pillar’s ...

Not many visitors make it to Coit Tower’s second floor, and even fewer notice the nondescript door across from the elevator. That door opens to a short hallway, with a bathroom directly to ...

With a flourish of political pomp and circumstance, Coit Tower threw open its doors Wednesday after being closed for six months of repairs to its water-damaged murals and leaking roof. The $1.7 ...

A Depression-era mural in Coit Tower. Photo by Spencer Michels. Two-hundred thousand visitors show up at Coit Tower in San Francisco every year, and most of them seem to ignore one the most ...

In its 90 years as an attraction on San Francisco’s Telegraph Hill, Coit Tower is only now trending with the stair-climbing set, thanks largely to an 18-month shutdown of the elevator, which ...

Ruth Gottstein, 91, stood in front of a bright mural in Coit Tower’s lobby, beaming in front of the newly restored painting of a 12-year old girl in a blue dress. In the 1930s, Gottstein's ...

The story of Coit Tower begins in the City’s earliest days when San Francisco was accessible by ship to the rest of the country and the world. Being that Telegraph Hill, located in the ...

The San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department announced last week that, in honor of Coit Tower’s 85th birthday, the Art Deco concrete tower of note has been singled out as a “nationally ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- Residents on Telegraph Hill are upset that visitors to Coit Tower were turned away Monday, as the landmark was closed to the public for the filming of a commercial using ...