1907
French Bank Building
French Bank Building
108 Sutter Street
A ten-story steel-frame structure built in 1907 on such a narrow frontage that its mostly-glass exterior is not immediately obvious. The huge window area is set off by the sandstone sheathing of the vertical members and ornate bronze grillwork over the lower parts of the windows.
108 Sutter Street
A ten-story steel-frame structure built in 1907 on such a narrow frontage that its mostly-glass exterior is not immediately obvious. The huge window area is set off by the sandstone sheathing of the vertical members and ornate bronze grillwork over the lower parts of the windows.
The Monadnock Building
Monadnock Building (1907)
685 Market Street, Suite 550
Architect: Frederick H. Meyer
Construction on the exquisite Beaux-Art style Monadnock Building began in 1906. Before its west wall was even completed, the Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire struck. Somehow the building managed to survive not only those calamities, but two separate attempts by the U.S. Army to destroy it with dynamite, hoping to create a firebreak that was intended to save the original Palace Hotel.
Hidden Treasure:
There is a twenty-four foot barrel-vaulted atrium lobby has outstanding Tieolo-inspired trompe l'oeil murals, featuring famous people from the city's past, by the Evans and Brown Co.
The theme of this mural is "San Francisco Renaissance." It is painted in the Renaissance Baroque style trompe l'oeil (which means to fool the eye) and chosen because the facade of this building was inspired by that period. That is why all these San Francisco and California characters are dressed in such costumes.
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