Dragon Gate (San Francisco)

Dragon Gate
	The gate in 2010
	37°47′27″N 122°24′20″W / 37.7907°N 122.4056°W
Location	Straddling Grant just north of Bush, San Francisco
Designer	Clayton Lee, Melvin Lee, and Joseph Yee
Beginning date	August 1968
Completion date	May 1970
Opening date	October 18, 1970

The Dragon Gate ("Chinatown Gate" on some maps) is a south-facing gate at the intersection of Bush Street and Grant Avenue, marking a southern entrance to San Francisco's Chinatown, in the U.S. state of California. Built in 1969 as a gift from the Republic of China (Taiwan) in the style of a traditional Chinese pailou,^[1] it became one of the most photographed locations in Chinatown, along with the older Sing Fat and Sing Chong buildings (at Grant and California).

^ Lei, D. (2016). Operatic China: Staging Chinese Identity Across the Pacific. Springer. ISBN 978-1-137-06163-8.

[:0-1] Lei, D. (2016). Operatic China: Staging Chinese Identity Across the Pacific. Springer. ISBN 978-1-137-06163-8.

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