base triangle legs spaced 45.7 m (150 ft) on a side
waist triangle legs spaced 18.3 m (60 ft) on a side
antenna triangle spaced 30.5 m (100 ft) on a side
Technical details
Structural system
Truss tower
Design and construction
Architect(s)
Furman L. Anderson Jr.[2]
Architecture firm
Kline Iron & Steel
Albert C. Martin and Associates
Renovating team
Engineer
Simpson Gumpertz & Heger
Website
sutrotower.com
References
[3][4][5]
Sutro Tower is a unique three-legged 297.8 m (977 ft) tall TV and radio lattice tower located in San Francisco, California. Rising from a hill between Twin Peaks and Mount Sutro near Clarendon Heights, it is a prominent feature of the city skyline and a landmark for city residents and visitors. The tower was the tallest structure in San Francisco from the time of its completion in 1973 until it was surpassed by the Salesforce Tower in 2018.
The tower is named after the family of Adolph Sutro, a businessman and former mayor of San Francisco. His grandson, Adolph Gilbert Sutro, built a mansion, La Avanzada, on their property in the highest peaks of San Francisco. In 1948, the mansion and property was sold to the American Broadcasting Company, where it became the original home of their San Francisco operation as KGO Television. KGO then formed a consortium with KTVU, KRON, and KPIX, the three other major San Francisco television broadcasters at the time, to build and maintain the tower. It stands 297.8 m (977 ft) above ground and 552 m (1,811 ft) above sea level. It is the second tallest structure in the city by ground-to-tip height, though its mountain location overlooks the city's downtown skyscrapers.
^Sutro Environmental Impact Report (Report). Federal Communications Commission. July 6, 1997. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
^"Furman L. Anderson, Jr., 87, member of North Trenholm Baptist Church who helped design the tallest tower in history in the 1960s". Cola Daily. June 5, 2014. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
^"Emporis building ID 118751". Emporis. Archived from the original on March 7, 2016.
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