Hallidie Building

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 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.

Hallidie Building
The Hallidie Building in 1981
LocationSan Francisco, CA
Coordinates37°47′24.07″N 122°24′12.67″W
Built1918
ArchitectWillis Polk
NRHP reference No.71000185[1]
SFDL No.37
Significant dates
Added to NRHPNovember 19, 1971
Designated SFDL1971[2]

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.

See also

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 15, 2006.
  2. "City of San Francisco Designated Landmarks". City of San Francisco. Archived from the original on 2014-03-25. Retrieved 2012-10-21.
  3. "Hallidie Building". Great Buildings Collection. Architecture Week. Retrieved 2010-12-01.
  4. King, John (2013-04-27). "A Return to Glory for the Hallidie Building". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2013-04-27.
  5. Kane, Will (2010-11-29). "Look up: Historic Hallidie Building crumbling". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2010-12-01.
  6. King, John (2020-11-30). "Famous S.F. building to get new storefront tenant — an architecture center". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2020-11-30.
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