When Eichler Homes announced in June 1964 that 'Eichler Geneva Towers' would be built three blocks from the Cow Palace in San Francisco’s southerly Visitacion Valley neighborhood, Eichler had already developed a middle-income townhouse development alongside the towers site.

Thanks to a swooping silhouette that is visible for miles and a reputation as one of San Francisco's swankiest condominium towers, the Summit remains a legend. But it's a paradox as well, both one of Joe Eichler's best-known buildings yet least ...

Hiding in plain sight in the middle of San Francisco's lively, troubled Tenderloin are a pair of towers built by Joe Eichler. Each apartment opens to the view with a wall

March 19, 2020 - (Fun fact: After Eichler's Summit tower rose on Jones and Green streets, to the delight of residents and the chagrin of neighbors, the Planning Department rethought its policy toward towers on hills, as Paul Adamson notes in his Eichler history, Modernism Rebuilds the American Dream.)

We looked at many of the eichler neighborhoods in the east bay (Castro Valley and Concord), north bay(Lucas Valley) and Sunnvale/Mountain View. Unfortunately, we had to move to Chicago (job market being what it is in the valley right now). Anyway, Chicago is well known for its modern high rise ...

October 10, 2025 - The Summit is a highrise condominium tower developed by Joseph Eichler, located near the top of the upscale Russian Hill in San Francisco, California, at 999 Green Street. The tower was designed by Niell Smith and Associates.

March 30, 2022 - One could imagine beach towels hanging off the balconies and perhaps a pool between the towers with glamorous folks lounging and sunbathing. That was originally what builder Joseph Eichler was going for in the early 1960s when he planned his five-acre low-rise/high-rise development on the block between Sunnydale, Schwerin, Velasco and Sawyer streets, the former site of the Sunnydale Nursery greenhouses.

May 25, 2022 - They're on the top (32nd) floor of 999 Green Street, a.k.a. The Summit, and once dubbed Eichler's Summit by developer Joseph Eichler, who also lived in the building after it was completed in 1965.

All of the townhomes were identical in design and consisted of two-story, 4 bedroom homes with a non-descript, red-brick facade and arched windows. Eichlers second project in Visitacion Valley was Geneva Towers, an 18-story twin-tower high rise apartment complex located near the intersection of Garrison Avenue & Schwerin Street in San Francisco's District 10.

12 hours ago - This level of potential profits encouraged an explosion of new building projects in the city. The 1892 height limit was relaxed in 1920 to 260 feet (79 m), and in 1923, Chicago passed its first comprehensive zoning ordinance, permitting taller towers, but with more controls on overall volumes.

They are the biggest Eichlers of all yet the least known, the high-rise towers built by Joe Eichler and some of his mid-rise townhouse ventures.

In the early 1960s, Joseph Eichler, ... venture led to the creation of the Geneva Terrace townhouses and the Geneva Towers high-rise apartment building....

Around this time Cliff Hanssen was working for Claude Oakland on what Hanssen described as an Eichler plan to build a pair of residential towers in the vicinity of Russian Hill.

June 21, 2022 - Joseph Eichler built the Bay Area in his own image. Even those of us who have never lived in an Eichler home inherited the design and development sensibilities that he promoted with the thousands of residential units that he scattered across the region like dandelions; when it came to the post-war ...

September 21, 2025 - But Eichler found himself mired in the city’s complex permitting process and overspent by $2 million on the construction of the Summit alone. His final San Francisco structures, the twin Geneva Towers, which opened in 1967, are remembered ...

San Francisco’s Iconic Eichler High Rise - 99 Green St If you love Eichlers but crave true city living, there is one San Francisco building that delivers mid century modern soul wrapped in skyline drama. Welcome to The Summit at 999 Green ...

June 9, 2024 - My wife and I live in a Eichler built tower in downtown San Francisco, erected in 1964. It’s a simple building, with clean lines and a no-frills attitude.

May 22, 2020 - The Summit is a 32-story apartment building on the peak of San Francisco’s fashionable Russian Hill. It was developed by prestigious Bay Area tract-house builder Eichler Homes (and is still commonly known by its original name, the Eichler ...

June 16, 2021 - Eichler was quoted as saying: “Many builders say ‘give the people what they want,’ but how can people ‘want’ innovations they have never seen or heard of?” Eichlers were among the first development houses with large glass sliders, built-in appliances, metal cabinets, and radiant heat in the floor.

The Alfred Eichler Collection (Identification # F3274) contains 431 images, comprising architectural drawings, sketches, and watercolor paintings Eichler created from 1925-1962. Among the designs and drawings are public projects including San Quentin and Folsom Prisons, Sacramento’s Tower Bridge, state fairgrounds, Stockton and Napa state hospitals, the School for the Deaf in Berkeley, state universities and office buildings, the Benicia State Capitol restoration, the Yountville Veterans Home, and others.