Craig Stanford didn’t make many drastic design changes to his San Francisco home for the first ... from surviving the 1906 earthquake to serving as the city’s fire department headquarters.

After 1906, Los Angeles merchants “took ... In 1905, scant months before the earthquake, San Francisco had been presented with the Burnham Plan, a park-centric model for an ideal reimagining ...

San Francisco - Earthquake & fire, 1906 "Ruins on Kearney St. near Post Office". Library of Congress. At 5:12 am on April 18, 1906, San Francisco residents were awakened by a 40-second tremor that ...

The 1906 earthquake and the devastating fire that followed changed the neighborhood dramatically. The disaster destroyed most of San Francisco's business district and many of its residential ...