During the 2013 government shutdown, the US Park Service ordered the restaurant closed.
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The fountain depicts images of the Cliff House, the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, the Seal of San Francisco, the band Jefferson Airplane, Francis Scott Key, and other San Francisco sights and figures, among other historical figures.
Its southern end is at Skyline Boulevard (State Route 35) near Lake Merced; it extends to Point Lobos Avenue and the Cliff House at its northern end.
Between 1831 and 1835, Lord Stuart de Rothesay built a Gothic Revival home Highcliffe Castle on the site of High Cliff house, his father's Georgian estate.
An attempt by the National Park Service to have the district listed as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places was unsuccessful, though the Camera Obscura on the property of the Cliff House was successfully added to the National Register on its own.