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Ferry Building

January 1, 1906

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Earthquake-damaged Ferry Building viewed through ruins at foot of Market Street. Repairs to tower in progress. The cast iron-column and brick ruins in the foreground are all that remained after the earthquake and fire of the Seamen's Institute, an Anglican mission to sailors at 29-33 Steuart Street since the mid-1890s. The building had been built in 1888-1889 as the Gualala Mill Co. After 1906, the Seamen's Institute rebuilt two blocks further south on Steuart. (WMK)