Hallidie Building
Hallidie Building | |
![]() The Hallidie Building in 1981 | |
Location | San Francisco, CA |
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Coordinates | 37°47′24.07″N 122°24′12.67″W / 37.7900194°N 122.4035194°WCoordinates: 37°47′24.07″N 122°24′12.67″W / 37.7900194°N 122.4035194°W |
Built | 1918 |
Architect | Willis Polk |
NRHP reference No. | 71000185[1] |
SFDL No. | 37 |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | November 19, 1971 |
Designated SFDL | 1971[2] |
The Hallidie Building is an office building in the Financial District of San Francisco, California, at 130 , between Montgomery Street and Kearny Street. Designed by architect Willis Polk and named in honor of San Francisco cable car pioneer Andrew Smith Hallidie, it opened in 1918 and though credited as the first American building to feature glass curtain walls,[3] it was in fact predated by Louis Curtiss's Boley Clothing Company building in Kansas City, Missouri, completed in 1909.[citation needed]
The building underwent a two-year restoration, completed in April 2013,[4] after its sheet metal friezes, cornices, balconies, and fire escapes were deemed unsafe by the City of San Francisco's Department of Building Inspection.[5]
The San Francisco chapter of the American Institute of Architects has its offices in the Hallidie Building and is renovating the concrete street-level retail space, which predates the rest of the building, to add a gallery, lecture hall, and cafe, to open in 2021.[6] The building also houses AIGA, the Center for Architecture + Design, Charles M. Salter Associates, Inc., and Coordinated Resources, Inc.[citation needed]
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 15, 2006.
- ^ "City of San Francisco Designated Landmarks". City of San Francisco. Archived from the original on 2014-03-25. Retrieved 2012-10-21.
- ^ "Hallidie Building". Great Buildings Collection. Architecture Week. Retrieved 2010-12-01.
- ^ King, John (2013-04-27). "A Return to Glory for the Hallidie Building". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2013-04-27.
- ^ Kane, Will (2010-11-29). "Look up: Historic Hallidie Building crumbling". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2010-12-01.
- ^ King, John (2020-11-30). "Famous S.F. building to get new storefront tenant — an architecture center". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2020-11-30.
External links[]
- Photos of the Hallidie Building at aiasf.org
- Hallidie Building at greatbuildings.com
- Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. CA-2221, "Hallidie Building", 1 photo, 1 photo caption page
- Financial District, San Francisco
- Office buildings completed in 1918
- Office buildings in San Francisco
- Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in California
- Historic American Buildings Survey in California
- National Historic Landmarks in the San Francisco Bay Area
- National Register of Historic Places in San Francisco
- San Francisco Designated Landmarks
- Modernist architecture in California
- Chicago school architecture in California