Construction

Contains 3716 photos

Market & 4th
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Market & 4th

Humboldt Savings Bank, 785 Market St. under construction. Open pit at corner. Hagedorn & Pilster, Regal Shoes, Raggett's saloon. Streetcars [B-25] [G810 B-025] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Downtown / Union Square
Montgomery & Sacramento
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Montgomery & Sacramento

Italian American Bank building under construction, Overland House hotel under construction at left. SE corner of Montgomery & Sacramento [B-26] [G810 B-026] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Financial District
Market & 4th
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Market & 4th

View east on Market toward 4th Street to Pacific, Humboldt Bank and Call Buildings. [Pacific & Humboldt Bank Buildings, SS Market St, Corner 4th, BU-31] [G810 BU-031] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Downtown / Union Square
Montgomery & Pine
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Montgomery & Pine

View northeast across intersection to work crew repairing the street. Telegraph Hill, Kohl Building, Safe Deposit Building (remaining lower stories refurbished for use), Security Savings Bank, Merchants Exchange in background. New one story wooden building next to Security Savings Bank has 310 Montgomery, Friedrichs Cafe, Louis Wiell (Weill) Cigars and Tobacco signs, 312 Edmond Godchaux, Stock broker. [EF-114] [G810 EF-114] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Financial District
Civic Center Ruins
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Civic Center Ruins

View north from center of 8th Street towards Marshall Square and ruins of City Hall. Pioneer (James Lick) Monument in center. City Hall dome being demolished. At right, Bird Store among storefronts. (G810 EF-132) (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Civic Center
Grand Hotel
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Grand Hotel

Elevated view across Market toward intersection of Market and New Montgomery Street. Five carriages outside entrance of Grand Hotel on New Montgomery, City Railroad Company horsecar #53. Palace Hotel construction site excavated at right. Market Street Horse car tracks. [30, T.E. Hecht, Grand Hotel April 1874, HO-18A] (G810 HO-018A) (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346) TEH30.

Downtown / Union Square
Old Civic Center
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Old Civic Center

Grove & Larkin. View looking Northeast at old City Hall and Hall of Records across City Hall Avenue (now removed). Prior to construction of City Hall dome and installation of Pioneer Monument. [PB-32] [G810 PB-032] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Civic Center
PPIE
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PPIE

Panama-Pacific International Exposition, Hall of Industry building under construction. [PPIE-6] [G810 PPIE-006] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Marina
Bush near Montgomery
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Bush near Montgomery

Elevated view northwest across Montgomery to Russ House hotel and Telegraph Hill beyond. Mutual Life Insurance Co. at far right. I. Peiser & Bro. tailor on corner, center. Same original image as wnp37.00616, with different cropping. [G810 SS-119] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346) [Russ House West Side Montgomery St bet Bush & Pine 1865. Russ House opened April 1862. TEH90 SS-119]

Financial District
2nd & Harrison
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2nd & Harrison

Superior duplicate to wnp4.1862. [TEH107 Cutting through 2nd St. in 1869 SS-169] View north from just south of Harrison Street of 2nd Street cut through Rincon Hill. [G810 SS-169] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

South of Market
Stockton & Market
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Stockton & Market

View north across Market up Stockton. Rail tracks being installed on Market Street. Temple Emanu-El in left distance. Roof of First Unitarian (Starr King's) Church at right. Lawrence & Houseworth No. 355 'Stockton Street, North from Market Street' [Stockton St. 1865] [G810 SS-175] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

South of Market
Market & Montgomery
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Market & Montgomery

Elevated view southwest across Market. Montgomery House, Standard Medicines, McFadden's Block 639 Market, Catholic Orphan Asylum and St Patrick's Church.. New Corner at lower right. [Market St. from Mont. 1866. SS_218] [G810 SS-218] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Financial District
Gough near Eddy
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Gough near Eddy

[East from Gough St. 1871 TEH110] View southeast from a sand dune to construction of Old City Hall with only the first two stories constructed, and the Mechanics Pavilion at 8th and Market (1874-1881) at center, with Mission Bay beyond. Houses at center were on Eddy St. Stereoview image published by Bradley & Rulofson. [G810 V-038] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Cathedral Hill
View from Merchants Exchange
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View from Merchants Exchange

[V-140] Elevated view northwest from the Merchants Exchange Building to scene showing much reconstruction and some buildings still in ruins. William Tell House, Mergenthaler Linotype (638 Sacramento), Chy Lung & Co. Chinese & Japanese Bazaar (676 Sacramento). Russian Hill at left, Chinatown (Dr. Ong Ting Shew Tea and Herbs, Dr. Chow Juyan Tea and Herbs) Portsmouth Square (with Lyceum Theater near Kearny and Washington corner), North Beach, Columbus Ave, St. Francis of Assisi Church (still gutted from fire), Bay in distance, Telegraph Hill at right. On Kearny: Dr. Field & Co's Free Museum, Lundstrom Hats, Harris' Loan Office, 615 Kearny, City Loan Office 621 Kearny, Hotel McDonough 706 Kearny. Streetcar on Washington near Kearny. [G810 V-140] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Financial District
California & Leidesdorff
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California & Leidesdorff

London & San Francisco Bank building (constructed in 1874), 424 California, northwest corner, with shoring visible inside on ground floor. building was heavily damaged in 1906, but rebuilt. [Calif & Leidesdorff St 1890] [G57 SSS-005] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Financial District