San Francisco Mint
The San Francisco Mint is a branch of the United States Mint. Opened in 1854 to serve the gold mines of the California gold rush, in twenty years its operations exceeded the capacity of the first building.Photo: Frevi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Heritage site
- Description: branch of the United States Mint
- Also known as: “Mint of San Francisco” and “U.S. Mint San Francisco Facility”
- Address: 155 Hermann Street, San Francisco, CA 94102
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Church station and Saint Francis Lutheran Church.
Church station
Railway station
Photo: Pi.1415926535, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Church station or Church Street station is a Muni Metro light rail station in San Francisco, California. It is located at the six-way intersection of Market Street, Church Street and 14th Street in the Duboce Triangle neighborhood. Church station is situated 1,200 feet southwest of San Francisco Mint.
Saint Francis Lutheran Church
Church
Photo: Dreamyshade, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Saint Francis Lutheran Church was built in 1905 and is located at 152 Church Street, between Market Street and Duboce Street in San Francisco, California. The church building has stained glass windows and Memorial Terrace outside. Saint Francis Lutheran Church is situated 800 feet southwest of San Francisco Mint.
California Volunteers
Monument
Photo: Another Believer, CC BY-SA 3.0.
California Volunteers, also known as the California Volunteers' Memorial and the Spanish–American War Memorial, is an outdoor sculpture installed in 1906 by Douglas Tilden. California Volunteers is situated 490 feet south of San Francisco Mint.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Duboce Triangle and Lower Haight.
Duboce Triangle
Neighborhood
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Duboce Triangle is a neighborhood of San Francisco, California, located below Buena Vista Park and between the neighborhoods of the Castro/Eureka Valley, the Mission District, and the Lower Haight.
Lower Haight
Neighborhood
The Lower Haight is a neighborhood, sometimes referred to as Haight–Fillmore, in San Francisco, California.
Hayes Valley
Neighborhood
Photo: Urban, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hayes Valley is a neighborhood in the Western Addition district of San Francisco, California. It is located between the historical districts of Alamo Square and the Civic Center.
San Francisco Mint
- Categories: branch mint, government agency, building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: San Francisco, Bay Area, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.77013° or 37° 46′ 13″ northLongitude
-122.4274° or 122° 25′ 39″ westInception
May 15th, 1937Levels
3Height
49 feet (15 metres)Open location code
849VQHCF+32OpenStreetMap ID
way 115944818OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=heritageWikidata ID
Q3109253
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“San Francisco Mint” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “دار سك العملة في سان فرانسيسكو”
- Armenian: “Սան Ֆրանցիսկոյի դրամահատարան”
- Catalan: “Casa de la Moneda de San Francisco”
- Catalan: “Casa de Moneda de San Francisco”
- Chinese: “三藩市鑄幣局”
- Chinese: “旧金山铸币局”
- Chinese: “美国造币厂”
- Chinese: “舊金山聯邦造幣廠”
- Chinese: “舊金山造幣廠”
- French: “Hôtel des monnaies de San Francisco”
- French: “Monnaie de San Francisco”
- Galician: “Casa da Moeda de San Francisco”
- Galician: “Casa de Moeda de San Francisco”
- Galician: “Ceca de San Francisco”
- Galician: “San Francisco Mint”
- Marathi: “सॅन फ्रान्सिस्को मिंट”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “San Francisco Mint”
- Norwegian: “San Francisco Mint”
- Spanish: “Casa de Moneda de San Francisco”
- Spanish: “San Francisco Mint”
- Ukrainian: “Монетний двір у Сан-Франциско”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include United States Mint and UCSF dental school clinic.
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