St. Patrick's Catholic Church was built 1851. The construction was designed in Neo-Gothic style. Its main features are the Tiffany stained glass windows glowing in vibrant colors and photo display cases depicting the extensive damage to St. Patrick's during the 1906 earthquake.

555 California Street was meant to be a deliberate and unambiguous display of the wealth, power, and importance of Bank of America. It is the second tallest building in the city and a focal point of the Financial District. Within the plaza is the 200-ton black Swedish granite sculpture "Transcendence" by Masayuki Nagare, while resembling a liver, it is locally and derisively known as the "Banker's Heart." Nearly the entire block, the skyscraper, the banking hall, the plaza, the stairways, and the sidewalks, is clad in costly polished or rough carnelian granite.

The Transamerica Pyramid is the tallest and most recognizable skyscraper in the San Francisco skyline. Designed by architect William Pereira, at 260 m (850 ft), upon completion it was among the 5 tallest buildings in the world. Built on the location of the historic Montgomery Block, it has a structural height of 260 m (850 ft) and contains 48 floors of retail and office space. Construction began in 1969 and finished in 1972. The building is a tall, four-sided pyramid with two "wings" on either side to accommodate an elevator shaft on the east and a stairwell and a smoke tower on the west. The top 64.6 m (212 ft) of the building is the spire.

St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception Cathedral was built in 1854 and it is one of California's most important historic landmarks. The artistic beauty and spiritual serenity make this building a very special place. The Cathedral's foundation was made of granite cut in China. The exterior was built of red bricks from New England, and the inside was beautified with typical Neo-Gothic arches and stained glass windows.

James C. Flood Mansion, also known as Pacific-Union Club, in San Francisco, California, USA, was a townhouse for James C. Flood, a 19th century silver-baron. It was the first brownstone building built west of the Mississippi River. With The Fairmont Hotel, the only buildings on Nob Hill to structurally survive the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. It was purchased by the Pacific-Union Club after the earthquake. Located at California and Mason Streets, in San Francisco, it was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1966.

Grace Cathedral is an Episcopal cathedral located on Nob Hill in San Francisco. Grace Cathedral has a siginificant collection of varied works by Jan Henryk De Rosen. Among these are a faux-tile mural behind the Chapel of Grace reredos from 1932, the mural in the Chapel of the Nativity's Adoration from 1946 showing the Holy Family with the magi and shepherds. The cathedral entrance has an impressive pair of doors, often called the Ghiberti doors. They are a copy of the doors of the Florence Baptistry by Lorenzo Ghiberti, also dubbed Gates of Paradise. Contained in the cathedral are 7,290 square feet (677 m2) of stained glass windows by noted artists that depict over 1100 figures ranging from Adam and Eve to Albert Einstein.

Saints Peter and Paul Church was built in 1924. The gorgeous interior of this Neo-Gothic cathedral consists of marble and ornately carved wood, a ceiling painted with gold leafs, and an amazing altar carved with the titular saints of the church, plus cherubims and angels.

Coit Tower was built in Pioneer Park atop Telegraph Hill in 1933 at the bequest of Lillie Hitchcock Coit to beautify the City of San Francisco. Although the architects claimed to have no design precedent in mind, during this time Europe saw the construction of aesthetically designed power stations that could be claimed as prototypes. The art deco tower, 210 feet (64 m) of unpainted reinforced concrete, was designed by architects Arthur Brown, Jr. and Henry Howard with murals by 26 different artists and numerous assistants. Coit Tower took 5 years to build.