Designed by architect/engineer Maurice Couchot, the National Carbon Building at 870 Brannan Street is a large-scale industrial warehouse structure overlaid with classical details. The building was built in multiple phases with the original 1917 building facing 8th Street. The 1917 building was four stories tall above street level with a
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Governor's Historic Preservation Award The Coit Memorial Tower rehabilitation project was significant for its successful collaboration between two City of San Francisco agencies: the Recreation and Parks Department which maintains and operates Coit Tower, and the Arts Commission, which cares for the tower’s murals, painted in the 1930s as part of the Public
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The thirty-eight-foot-tall Peace sculpture was designed by artist Beniamino Bufano in 1938 and 1939. The stainless-steel missile-shaped Madonna figure includes a central glass tile mosaic inlay depicting the Universal Child. It was originally located at the San Francisco Airport before being moved to its current location on Brotherhood Way in
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Preservation Design Award Restoration This category addresses projects that accurately depict the form, features, and character of a property or structure as it appeared in a particular period of time by means of the removal of features from other periods in its history and reconstruction of missing features from the restoration period.
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Falkirk Cultural Center is a 19th century country estate listed on the National Historic Register. The Queen Anne Victorian style structure, was designed by Clinton Day, built in 1888 by Ella Nichols Park, and purchased by Captain Robert Dollar in 1906. Falkirk is named after Dollar’s birthplace in Scotland, and
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Constructed in 1812, Mission San Luis Rey was the 18th of the twenty-one missions founded in California. With the exception of several restoration episodes in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the majority of the adobe structure and architectural features are original. ARG Conservation Services was retained by Old Mission
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McKinley Monument is situated at the east end of the Golden Gate Park Panhandle in San Francisco. The sculpture consists of a bronze figure atop a square granite base that is approximately 6 feet wide and 9 feet tall, with a 13 foot wide square granite base. It is set
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Calvary Presbyterian Church was founded in 1854. At the time of its construction, it was the largest Protestant church on the west coast. The first church, constructed in 1855, was located on Bush Street, between Montgomery and Sansome (where the Mills Building stands today). The Church made its first move
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Preservation Design Award Craftsmanship & Preservation Technology This category honors excellence in craftsmanship or technological innovation pertaining to a single element of an overall preservation project…or practices to historic structures or sites, which promote environmental design, material and energy conservation, and an improved quality of life.
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The National Cemetery for veterans in the Presidio of San Francisco dates to 1854. The first national Cemetery on the west coast, the Presidio landmark serves as the final resting place for 3,000 American service members, including buffalo soldiers and Civil War generals. The cemetery is bordered by a historic
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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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The Ritz-Carlton Hotel is a landmark building on Nob Hill dating to 1909. The building was originally designed by Napoleon LeBrun and Sons to be the Pacific Coast headquarters of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. After subsequent additions, the building reopened in 1991 as the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. The U-shaped building
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