wnp71.1536
Montgomery near California
Elevated view looking northeast to bay. Warehouses, Brown & Power Co., Appraiser's Building, U.S. Custom House at top center. Fisher Packing Co.509-17 Commercial at right center. Brown & Power printers, Phillips, Smyth & Van Orden printers, 508 Clay at Sansome, Niantic Block (Niantic Building) at center. O. Milani & Brothers, chocolate & cocoa, 704 Sansome, at upper left. In center distance, Tillmann & Bendel Coffee and Spice Mill 694-6 Battery at Pacific. Panorama 1890 [Sic] part 3 [F810 PAN-004c] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Financial District
wnp25.0982
California near Montgomery
View west from center of California above Montgomery, probably from cable car, looking up Nob Hill to Old St. Mary's Church, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. (later Ritz-Carlton), Mark Hopkins and Fairmont Hotels. At right, Financial Center Building (1927), later Omni Hotel, with lower stories modernized with stone sheathing. Empty lot with pedestrian safety structure at 550 California, site of Occidental Life Insurance Co. Building, completed 1960. Uphill from construction side is Home Insurance Company Building (around this time, Fireman's Fund) completed 1951 and demolished in 1983. On left, at Kearny corner, construction or demolition is underway for the International Building (601 California).
Financial District