Placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, the Mills Building is one of San Francisco’s architectural gems. Located at 220 Montgomery Street in the financial district, the Mills Building sports a decorative façade of terra cotta, brick and marble with intricately carved designs. Built in 1890, it
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In the late 19th century, 855 Battery Street was the San Francisco headquarters for the candy and cookie manufacturer American Biscuit Company, which later became National Biscuit and renamed Nabisco. The structures comprising the plant were destroyed in 1906, and soon thereafter the present building was constructed of board-formed reinforced
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300 Montgomery Street is the result of two distinct design campaigns which occurred in 1917 and 1941. The oldest portion of 300 Montgomery Street, originally a Bank of America, was designed by George Kelham. In 1941, the building was significantly expanded, doubling its size to fill the entire street wall
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Designed in 1912 by Benjamin Greer McDougall for the Standard Oil Company, 115 Sansome is located at the corner of Bush and Sansome Streets in the Financial District of San Francisco. This fourteen-story building has a three-part architectural composition detailed in the Beaux-Arts style. The base of the building is
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Calvary Presbyterian Church was dedicated on January 14, 1855, in San Francisco’s Financial District. In 1869, a larger sanctuary was built for the congregation in Union Square, now the lobby of the St. Francis hotel. This church was disassem-bled and rebuilt at its current location in Pacific Heights in 1904.
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