If you pull into the parking lot of the San Francisco Zoo you might notice an ornate building facade that stands behind a barbed wire fence, seemingly out of place and without any historical ...

Over the weekend firefighters battled a raging blaze at the the Historic Fleishhacker Pool House near the San Francisco Zoo. The two alarm-fire started Saturday at about 1 p.m., causing the historic ...

When San Francisco was developing in the mid-1800s, it was all work and no play for the inhabitants of the small pueblo. The excitement of gold fever attracted mainly men who could live a robust, ...

The Herbert Fleishhacker Municipal Swimming Pool was a monumental and unique natatorium, conceived of and built at a time when San Franciscans thought big and acted upon grand ideas. Using historical ...

The two-alarm fire broke out Saturday afternoon in the Fleishhacker Pool house, which is located at the foot of Sloat Boulevard. Thick smoke was pouring out of the building when firefighters arrived.

In San Francisco a municipal swimming pool, zoo, park all bear the name of Fleishhacker—not only because Banker Herbert Fleishhacker was a big contributor to them, but because when serving a brief ...