Coit Tower on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco was designed in the Art Deco style by Arthur Brown Jr., the competition winner, and Henry Temple Howard. A bequest from the estate of Lillie Hitchcock Coit funded it, and the city added $7,000. The infobox gives 1933 as the build year, and the text gives a dedication on October 8, 1933, but it did not open until October 12, 1934, after a censorship dispute over its murals.
The tapering fluted shaft of unpainted reinforced concrete is 180 feet (55 m) high, with the observation deck 32 feet below the top. It has three nesting concrete cylinders and a phoenix relief above the entrance by Robert Boardman Howard.
A hammer-and-sickle symbol and a banner were removed from two murals in 1934. Most murals were restored in 1990 and 2014. It became a San Francisco landmark in 1984 and was added to the National Register in 2008.
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