House at 1254–1256 Montgomery Street

The house at 1254–1256 Montgomery Street is a historic house located in the Telegraph Hill neighborhood of San Francisco. Construction commenced in the early 1860s [partial first floor] and sits on a secondary summit of the hill, which was also the site of a windmill that burned in 1861. The house's Italianate architecture design features large windows on the front corner, double-hung sash windows decorated with pilasters and cornices, and a bracketed cornice along the roofline. While the house originally had only one story, its second story was part of its original plan and constructed by the 1890s. The house is one of the few buildings on Telegraph Hill which survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and its aftermath. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 31, 1979.

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Sidney Kahn House

The Sidney Kahn House is a four-story residential building in Telegraph Hill, San Francisco, California designed by architect Richard Neutra in 1939. The building is Neutra's most famous house in San Francisco. The building's top floor is designed as a living room and bar while its middle two floors hold bedrooms. The house notably features a number of south and east-facing balconies that affording views of the Financial District and East Bay. In addition to the design of the house, the Khans commissioned Neutra to design furnishings. Most notable of the resulting designs was the "camel" table featuring legs that could "kneel," lowering it to a coffee-table height. The building was subdivided into two smaller units by a later owner, yet has since been re-unified into one house. The house is near 42 Calhoun Terrace, where Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo lived briefly in 1940.

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Linden Lab

Linden Laboratories Inc., doing business as Linden Lab, is an American technology company that is best known as the developer of Second Life. The company's head office is in San Francisco, California, with additional offices in Boston, Massachusetts; Seattle, Washington; Davis, California; and Virginia. In addition, the company employs remote workers that communicate and collaborate on projects using Second Life technology.

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Malloch Building

The Malloch Building is a private residential apartment building on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco designed in the Streamline Moderne style and built in 1937. The building, one of the best examples of its type in San Francisco, is also known as Malloch Apartments, Malloch Apartment Building, and simply by its address: 1360 Montgomery Street. Some have called it the "Ocean-Liner House", though other Moderne buildings have also been known by that nickname. Designed by Irvin Goldstine for contractor John "Jack" S. Malloch and his publisher son, John Rolph Malloch, the building was used as a filming location in 1947's Dark Passage, a noir work starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.

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Levi Strauss & Co.

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