The concessioner, Coit Tower LLC, provides services from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the summer season and until 5 p.m. in winter months. The company operates the elevator, museum shop, ...

Leonardo Gutierrez of Anvil Builders brings protective panels in to put over the murals in Coit Tower while the building is 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 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 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 ...

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.

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 ...

In San Francisco's Coit Tower, historic murals by 25 significant artists depicting life in California in the early 1930s have fallen into disrepair for a variety of reasons, including a lack of ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (KGO) -- One of San Francisco's most popular tourist attractions has finally reopened after being closed for repairs for six months. Coit Tower, high atop Telegraph Hill, had ...