Hallidie Building
Hallidie Building | |
 The Hallidie Building in 2021 | |
| Location | San Francisco, CA |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 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 Sutter Street, 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.
The building is noted especially for its glass facade, symmetrical fire escapes and ornate iron work.[3] The building is one of the country’s first glass curtain walls.[4] While the seven-story building was predated by Louis Curtiss’s 1909 Boley Clothing Company building in Kansas City, Missouri,[5][6] it is unclear which buildings, if any, served as inspiration for Polk other than The Crystal Palace.[3]
In 1971, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors made the building a historic monument after a bank was considering replacing it with a much taller building.[3]
The building underwent a two-year restoration, which was completed in April 2013,[7] after its sheet metal friezes, cornices, balconies, and fire escapes were deemed unsafe by the City of San Francisco's Department of Building Inspection.[8]
The San Francisco chapter of the American Institute of Architects opened the Center for Architecture + Design in the street-level retail space, which predates the rest of the building, adding a gallery, lecture hall, and cafe in 2023.[9][10]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ "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 March 25, 2014. Retrieved October 21, 2012.
- 1 2 3 Dills, Keith W. (December 1, 1971). "The Hallidie Building". Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. 30 (4): 323–329. doi:10.2307/988706. ISSN 0037-9808.
- ↑ King, John (September 2023). "Getting Down". Architectural Record.
- ↑ Woodcox, Cole; Eggener, Keith (July 17, 2018). "Boley Building". SAH ARCHIPEDIA. Retrieved February 24, 2026.
- ↑ Kelley, Stephen K. (January 1, 1996). "An image of modernity: An American history of the curtain wall". Docomomo Journal (15): 18. ISSN 1380-3204.
- ↑ King, John (April 27, 2013). "A Return to Glory for the Hallidie Building". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved April 27, 2013.
- ↑ Kane, Will (November 29, 2010). "Look up: Historic Hallidie Building crumbling". San Francisco Chronicle. Archived from the original on December 1, 2010. Retrieved December 1, 2010.
- ↑ King, John (November 30, 2020). "Famous S.F. building to get new storefront tenant — an architecture center". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved November 30, 2020.
- ↑ John King (September 1, 2023). "AIA San Francisco Moves Downstairs in the Historic Hallidie Building for a Major Office Upgrade". Architectural Record.
External links
[edit]- 1920s picture of Hallidie Building at OpenSFHistory
- 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 Register of Historic Places in San Francisco
- San Francisco Designated Landmarks
- Modernist architecture in California
- Chicago school architecture in California
