Tower coitus

The Coit Tower is a tower located at San Francisco in California. Built in style Art déco, it is inaugurated in 1933. It was built according to the wishes of Lillie Hitchcock Coit, to honor the firemen with the city. It was drawn by the architects Arthur Brown Jr. and Henry Howard.

Murals

This tower of 64 meters in the style Art déco was inaugurated in 1933. It was built with the funds allotted by Lillie Hitchcock Coit, widow of a fortunate banker, by Arthur Brown Jr. and Henry Howard with murals of 26 different artists and many assistants. Two of these murals have as a subject of the scenes of bay of San Francisco painted by the Spanish artist Jose Moya del Piño, which resided in the area of Bay. Except for a painting carried out with the Moderated and of work carried out in the ascencor which is oils on fabrics, the majority of paintings were carried out in fresco. While most of the murals were restorées, a small section (the staircase in spiral leading to the platform of observation) it but was not durably covered with the epoxy one. These paintings relate to topics social and political relating to the Grande depression and the movements Socialiste S. the majority are accessible freely to the public during the opening hours, although there are negotiations in progress to make pay an import duty. The mural ones of the staircase in spiral, generally closed with the public, open Saturday morning with 11 a.m. with a paying guided visit.

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air Visit of the “coitus tower” in Photographs

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