Zack Peck of Lewis Restoration paints the exterior doors and windows at Coit Tower, which is currently closed for repairs, in San Francisco, Calif., on Wednesday, January 22, 2014.

Recreation and parks officials have promised to channel 1% annually from the Coit Tower earnings into a fund for mural upkeep, in addition to pledging up to $250,000 for a one-time restoration.

The top of Coit Tower during its reopening May 14, 2014 in San Francisco, Calif. The tower is now open again to the public after being closed for a number of months for conservation and ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- San Francisco's landmark Coit Tower is set to close Monday for a five-month renovation project that includes the restoration of its famous Depression-era murals ...

The tower originally opened in 1933 and was paid for by Lillie Coit, the eccentric San Francisco heiress who had a soft spot for the city’s volunteer fire department.

Coit Tower, the iconic concrete column rising from San Francisco's Telegraph Hill, closed Monday for a five-month renovation project. The tower has been a vaunted piece of the city skyline since ...

Coit Tower and its masterpiece murals would be open to the public beginning October 20, 1934. Local journalist Junius Craven consistently demeaned the murals and the muralists throughout the ...

Protect Coit Tower said Logan Media paid the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department $1,500 for a permit to shoot the commercial at the tower.

Coit Tower was built in 1933 atop Telegraph Hill with money — $125,000 — bequested to the city for its beautification by a wealthy, eccentric widow, Lillie Hitchcock Coit.