With the opening of the privately built Point Lobos toll road a year later, the Cliff House became a Sunday destination among the carriage trade. It was a long trek on foot from the city and the restaurant hosted mostly horseback riders, small-game hunters or picnickers on day outings. Butler, opened in 1863 and leased to Captain Junius G. The Cliff House was built by Senator John Buckley and C. C. While Brannan may have constructed a building there, no historical evidence of this building exists and its role in the origin of the Cliff House remains apocryphal. Īnecdotal stories claim that in 1858 Samuel Brannan paid $1,500 for lumber salvaged from a ship that foundered on the rocky shore's basalt cliffs near Seal Rocks and built the first Cliff House. ĭozens of ships have run aground on the southern shore of the Golden Gate below the Cliff House. In December 2020, the 47-year operator of these amenities announced that it was closing, and it criticized the NPS for not having signed a new long-term lease with any operator since its own prior 20-year lease had expired in June 2018. Since 1977, these restaurants and bars have been run by a private operator under contract with the National Park Service. The Cliff House is owned by the NPS the building's terrace hosts a room-sized camera obscura.įor most of the Cliff House's history, since 1863, the building's main draw has been restaurants and bars where patrons could enjoy the Pacific Ocean views.
The building overlooks the site of the Sutro Baths ruins, Seal Rocks, and is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, operated by the National Park Service (NPS). The Cliff House is a neo-classical style building perched on the headland above the cliffs just north of Ocean Beach, in the Outer Richmond neighborhood of San Francisco, California.
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