Hallidie Building (San Francisco, California)

USA / California / San Francisco / San Francisco, California / Sutter Street, 130-150
 office building, NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, Victorian Gothic (architecture), International style architecture
Designed by Willis Polk & Company in 1917 as an 8-floor building named for Andrew S. Hallidie, the inventor of the cable car and a Regent at the University of California. It was built as an investment property for the University of California system.

Credited as the first use of the glass-curtain-wall, the facade of this building is more curtainlike than almost anything since. The elaborate cast-iron cornice, which resembles a Victorian window valance, contributes to the impression that the glass grid is a curtain. The building is the longtime home of the San Francisco chapter of the American Institute of Architects.

National Registry of Historical Places No. 71000185, registered in 1971. San Francisco Landmark #37.

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In this building

  1. The Hound Clothier
  2. U. S. Post Office
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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallidie_Building
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Coordinates:   37°47'24"N   122°24'10"W

Comments

  • Willis Polk, Architect
  • See articles about the restoration on the web. It now in its original Blue & Gold colors, as it was when it was the property of UC Berkeley. Hallidie was an erstwhile Regent of UC.
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