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However, Union Pacific Railroad was still the owner of One Market Street until the building was sold for US$50,000,000 (equivalent to $93,466,721 in 2023) to The Martin Group (TMG) in 1998. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] TMG invested another $50 million to renovate the property, [ 8 ] including a seismic retrofit, completing work in 1999. [ 10 ]
The Pacific Gas and Electric Company General Office Building and Annex is a historic office building located at 245 Market St. in San Francisco, California. The building was constructed in 1923–25 to serve as the Pacific Gas and Electric Company headquarters. Architects Bakewell & Brown designed the Beaux-Arts building.
345 California Center is a 48-story office tower in the financial district of San Francisco, California. Completed in 1986, the 211.8 m (695 ft) tower is the fifth tallest in the city after the Salesforce Tower, Transamerica Pyramid, 181 Fremont, and 555 California Street if the spires are included. It was originally proposed to be 30 m (98 ft ...
Willis Polk was born on October 3, 1867, in Jacksonville, Illinois to architect builder [1] Willis Webb Polk (1836-1906). [2] The eldest of four children, in 1873 he moved with his family to Saint Louis, Missouri and again by 1881 to Hope, Arkansas. [2]
San Francisco firm Homework transforms a grand historic house in Pacific Heights into a home brimming with color and life for a young family.
Despite the "One Montgomery" branding, the building's main entrance is on 120 Kearny Street, rather than on Montgomery Street. [6] The building's structural steel columns are covered by a facade consisting of red granite and square tempered glass windows with aluminum frames, with small squares marking the intersections of each block of four ...
The main entrance on Battery Street has a grouping of sculptural figures over the cornice. [5] The imposing six-story building is faced in pale granite from Raymond, California. The concrete foundation of the building rests on timbers from the hull of the steamship Georgian, a vessel from San Francisco's gold rush days that was abandoned. The ...
The San Francisco Chronicle's architecture critic John King described the Russ Building as "the embodiment of Jazz Age romance, a full block of ornate Gothic-flavored masonry that ascends in jagged stages from Montgomery Street with a leap and then a scramble to a central crown". [1] The tower is a California Historical Landmark. [3]