Nob Hill is a neighborhood of San Francisco, California, United States[4][5] that is known for its numerous luxury hotels and historic mansions.

Nob Hill is among the highest-income neighborhoods in the United States, as well as one of the most desirable and expensive real estate markets in the country.

[6][7][8][9] Prior to Covid-19, it was the most expensive real estate market per metre squared, narrowly beating Monte Carlo, although it has since fallen heavily.

Nob Hill is a luxury destination in San Francisco, owing to its numerous Michelin-starred restaurants,[12] boutiques, cultural institutions, art galleries, and historic landmarks.

Because of the views and its central position, it became an exclusive enclave of the rich and famous on the west coast who built large mansions in the neighborhood.

[16][17] The neighborhood was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and fire, except for the granite walls surrounding the Stanford, Crocker, Huntington and Hopkins mansions.

Also gutted by the fires was the newly completed Fairmont Hotel at Mason and California Streets, as well as the mansion of tycoon James Clair Flood.

The hotels were named for San Francisco tycoons Mark Hopkins, Leland Stanford, & Collis Potter Huntington — three of the Big Four entrepreneurs of the construction of the Central Pacific Railroad — and James Graham Fair, respectively.

[18] Also in lower Nob Hill, on Bush Street, are the Memorial Home of Fire Chief Dennis T. Sullivan[19] and the sister hotels, the White Swan Inn and Petite Auberge.