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The Transamerica Pyramid is a pyramid-shaped 48-story modernist skyscraper in San Francisco, California, United States, and the second tallest building in the San Francisco skyline. [5] Located at 600 Montgomery Street between Clay and Washington Streets in the city's Financial District, it was the tallest building in San Francisco from its ...
Many of San Francisco's tallest buildings, particularly its office skyscrapers, [9] were completed in a building boom from the late 1960s until the late 1980s. [10] During the 1960s, at least 40 new skyscrapers were built, [ 11 ] and the Hartford Building (1965), 44 Montgomery (1967), Bank of America Center (1969), and Transamerica Pyramid ...
Montgomery Street is a north-south thoroughfare in San Francisco, California, in the United States. It runs about 16 blocks from the residential Telegraph Hill neighborhood south through downtown , terminating at Market Street .
Yeon Building (San Francisco) 432 Jackson Street March 16, 1970 SFDL 25 Moulinie Building: 458–60 Jackson Street March 16, 1970 SFDL 26 Bank of Lucas, Turner & Co. 800–804 Montgomery Street March 16, 1970 SFDL 27 Grogan-Lent-Atherton Building: 400 Jackson Street March 16, 1970 SFDL 28 Old Holy Virgin Russian Orthodox Cathedral: 858–864 ...
The Montgomery Block, also known as Monkey Block and Halleck's Folly, was a historic building active from 1853 to 1959, and was located in San Francisco, California. It was San Francisco's first fireproof and earthquake resistant building. [2] It came to be known as a Bohemian center, from the late 19th to the middle of the 20th-century. [2]
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 ...
Two Embarcadero Center is an office skyscraper located off The Embarcadero in the financial district of San Francisco, California. [4] The 126 m (413 ft), 30-story tower, completed in 1974 is part of the Embarcadero Center, a complex of seven towers, of which two are hotels. [5]
Between 1864/65 and his death in January 1880, the San Francisco eccentric and folk hero known as Emperor Norton is documented to have lived in the Eureka Lodgings, a rooming house located at 624 Commercial Street, between Montgomery and Kearny Streets. The building that housed the Eureka was destroyed in the disaster of April 1906.