A stroll around the neighborhood, and a stop for coffee — at Starbucks, but right across the street from the beautiful Folger Coffee Building.
From Wikipedia:
The Folger Coffee Company was founded in San Francisco, California, as the Pioneer Steam Coffee and Spice Mills in 1850, and acquired and renamed by James A. Folger in 1872. James came to San Francisco from Nantucket Island at the age of 15 with his two older brothers during the California Gold Rush. Under the mid-20th century leadership of his great-grandson, Peter Folger (the father of Charles Manson murder victim Abigail Folger), it became one of the largest coffee concerns in North America, which has traditionally been the largest market for coffee in the world. Procter & Gamble (P&G) acquired the company in 1963 and dropped the apostrophe from the product’s name. P&G announced in January 2008 that Folgers would be spun off into a separate company, based in Cincinnati. In June 2008, P&G reversed the prior announcement and announced that Folgers would be acquired by The J.M. Smucker Co. based in Orrville, Ohio, by the end of 2008 utilizing a rare financial technique called a Reverse Morris Trust. The Folgers Coffee Company became a subsidiary of The J.M. Smucker Company in November 2008.
The building was constructed in 19xx, was designed by architect Henry A. Schulze, in the Renaissance style. It is on the National Register of Historic Places. It was built in 1905 and largely survived the earthquake and fire one year later.