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| name = James C. Flood Building |
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| alternate_names = James L. Flood Building<br>[[870 Market Street]] |
| alternate_names = James L. Flood Building<br>[[870 Market Street]] |
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| caption = Flood Building |
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| location = [[Market Street (San Francisco)|870 Market Street]]<br>[[San Francisco]], [[California]] |
| location = [[Market Street (San Francisco)|870 Market Street]]<br>[[San Francisco]], [[California]] |
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| completion_date = 1904 |
| completion_date = 1904 |
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| architect = [[Albert Pissis]] |
| architect = [[Albert Pissis]] |
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| owner = The [[James C. Flood]] Family Mary E Stebbins Trust |
| owner = The [[James C. Flood]] Family Mary E Stebbins Trust |
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| floor_count = 12 |
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| references = <ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.emporis.com/buildings/118775 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307025411/https://www.emporis.com/buildings/118775 |url-status=usurped |archive-date=March 7, 2016 |title=Emporis building ID 118775 |work=[[Emporis]]}}</ref> |
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| references = <ref>{{emporis|118775}}</ref> |
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| building_type = Commercial offices<br>Retail space |
| building_type = Commercial offices<br>Retail space |
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| architectural_style= [[Beaux-Arts architecture|Beaux-Arts]] |
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| structural_system = [[Steel frame]] |
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The '''Flood Building''' is a 12-story highrise in the [[Financial District, San Francisco|downtown shopping district]] of [[San Francisco]], [[California]] |
The '''Flood Building''' is a 12-story highrise in the [[Financial District, San Francisco|downtown shopping district]] of [[San Francisco]], [[California]]. It is located at 870 [[Market Street (San Francisco)|Market Street]] on the corner of [[Powell Street]], next to the [[San Francisco cable car system|Powell Street cable car turntable]], [[Hallidie Plaza]], and the [[Powell Street Station|Powell Street BART Station]] entrance. Designed by [[Albert Pissis]] and completed in 1904 for [[James L. Flood]], son of millionaire [[James Clair Flood]], it is one of the few major buildings in San Francisco that survived the [[1906 San Francisco earthquake|1906 earthquake and fire]]. {{As of|2024}}, it is still owned by the Flood family.<ref name=challenge>{{cite news |author=John King |url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/downtown-sf-flood-building-vacancy-19567616.php |title=S.F.'s Flood Building is a 120-year-old icon. Now it's facing its toughest challenge in decades |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |date=July 26, 2024 |access-date=July 27, 2024 }}</ref> |
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==Building== |
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| ⚫ | The site formerly housed [[Baldwin's Hotel and Theatre]], which was destroyed by fire in 1898.<ref name= |
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John King, the architecture critic of the ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'', has described the Flood Building as "twelve stories of orderly pomp with a rounded [[prow]] that commands the corner of Powell and Market Streets ... Every detail is rooted and right, from the tall storefronts that beckon cable car daytrippers to the baroque cliff of the sandstone façade with its deep-chiseled windows."<ref>{{cite news |author=John King |url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/flood-building-every-detail-is-rooted-right-3172223.php |title=Flood Building: Every detail is rooted, right |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |date=February 15, 2009 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |author=John King |title=Cityscapes: San Francisco and its Buildings |publisher=Heyday |year=2011 |isbn=978-1597141543}}</ref> Baroque revival in style, it is a steel-frame building clad in grey Colusa sandstone. A lobby with red marble columns traverses the building from Market to Ellis Street. The wedge-shaped office floors surround a [[lightwell]]; the corridors have white marble flooring and veined white marble walls, and have retained their wooden doors with openable [[transom window]]s.<ref name=challenge/> |
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It became a San Francisco landmark in 1982.<ref name=SFLandmark/><ref name=Mem/> |
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The [[San Francisco Chronicle]]'s architecture critic John King praised the Flood Building as "twelve stories of orderly pomp with a rounded [[prow]] that commands the corner of Powell and Market Streets ... Every detail is rooted and right, from the tall storefronts that beckon cable car daytrippers to the baroque cliff of the sandstone façade with its deep-chiseled windows and just enough ornamentation to enliven the mass rather than clutter the scene."<ref>{{Cite book|title=Cityscapes: San Francisco and its Buildings|last=King|first=John|publisher=Heyday|year=2011|isbn=978-1597141543|location=|pages=}}</ref> |
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==History== |
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| ⚫ | The site formerly housed [[Baldwin's Hotel and Theatre]], which was destroyed by fire in 1898.<ref name=challenge/><ref name=Mem/> It was later purchased by [[James L. Flood]], who constructed the building as a tribute to his father, [[James Clair Flood]], the [[Comstock Lode]] millionaire).<ref name=Mem>{{cite news | author=Patricia Yollin | title=Flood of Memories | url=https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Flood-of-memories-Like-the-family-that-built-2576805.php | work=The San Francisco Chronicle | date=July 4, 2003 | access-date=July 27, 2024 }}</ref> Designed by [[Albert Pissis]], it opened in 1904 as San Francisco's largest building.<ref name=challenge/> In 1906, it was one of the few major buildings to survive the San Francisco earthquake and the fire that followed;<ref name=challenge/> full restoration of the interior took two years.<ref name=Mem/> |
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The [[Southern Pacific Transportation Company|Southern Pacific Railroad]] company maintained its headquarters in the building after its earthquake renovations from 1907 until 1917 when it moved to its own building now at [[Southern Pacific Building|One Market Plaza]]. The [[F. W. Woolworth Company]] store located on basement level and first and second floors was the largest in the chain until 1992, when it was downsized, and later closed in 1996. More recent major tenants include the flagship stores for retailers, [[Gap (clothing retailer)|Gap]], [[Urban Outfitters]], and [[Anthropologie]]. |
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By World War II, the building had become medical and dental offices.<ref name=Mem/> In 1950, the Flood family accepted a proposal from the [[F. W. Woolworth Company]] to replace it with a modern three-story store, which would revert to the family on the expiration of a 50-year lease. Instead, after the tenants had been evicted in preparation for demolition, the building was requisitioned by the [[United States Navy|Navy]] for logistics purposes during the [[Korean War]], reverting to the Flood family after the war ended in 1953. The Navy returned the retail floors to the family, and in 1952 Woolworth's opened a store in the basement and on the first and second floors, on a 40-year lease.<ref name=challenge/><ref name=Mem/><ref name=obit/> |
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| ⚫ | The [[Pinkerton Agency|Pinkerton Detective Agency]] had an office |
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The building was renovated in the 1990s<ref name=challenge/><ref name=Woolies/> at a cost of $15 million, and a bust of James L. Flood by his daughter Mary Ellen Flood Stebbins was installed in the lobby.<ref name=obit/> |
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==Tenants== |
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The [[Southern Pacific Transportation Company|Southern Pacific Railroad]] company had its headquarters in the Flood Building from 1907 until 1917 when it moved to its own building, now at [[Southern Pacific Building|One Market Plaza]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Don L. Hofsommer |title=The Southern Pacific, 1981–1985 |location=College Station |publisher=Texas A & M University Press |year=1986 |isbn=978-1-60344-127-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BsRvIUwLwFwC&pg=PA70 |page=70 }}</ref> |
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| ⚫ | The [[Pinkerton Agency|Pinkerton Detective Agency]] had an office on the third floor, where it employed the novelist [[Dashiell Hammett]] as an operative; Hammett located his fictional Continental Detective Agency in the building.<ref>{{cite news | author=Audrey Medina | title=5 places for finding the stuff of film noir | url=https://www.sfgate.com/travel/fiveplaces/article/5-places-for-finding-the-stuff-of-film-noir-2461930.php | work=The San Francisco Chronicle | date=January 16, 2011 | access-date=July 27, 2024 }}</ref> |
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Other office tenants have included the [[International Brotherhood of Teamsters|Teamsters]] and the [[Internal Revenue Service]].<ref name=Mem/> On the afternoon of January 27, 1975, the two-year anniversary of the ceasefire of the Vietnam War, demonstrators staged a takeover of the Consulate of South Vietnam, located above Woolworths.<ref>The Conspiracy, magazine of the National Lawyers Guild, Volume 5, Number 4, page 6, March 1975, San Francisco, CA, https://content.wisconsinhistory.org/digital/collection/p15932coll8/id/15581/</ref> <ref>(1975, January 28). San Francisco Chronicle, p. 1. Available from NewsBank: San Francisco Chronicle Historical Archive: https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=EANX-NB&docref=image/v2%3A142051F45F422A02%40EANX-NB-1516A427EC6F7C28%402442441-151473F7E8B8BA5C%400-151473F7E8B8BA5C%40.</ref> Until 2002, the building housed the [[consulate]] of Mexico; in 2003, eight consulates remained,<ref name=Mem/> in 2020, two, those of Nicaragua and Chile.<ref name=obit>{{cite news |author=Steve Rubenstein |url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/San-Francisco-s-James-Flood-descendant-of-15075205.php |title=San Francisco's James Flood, descendant of Silver King, dies at 80 |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |date=February 22, 2020 |access-date=July 27, 2024 }}</ref> In 2024, the [[Market Street Railway (nonprofit)|Market Street Railway]] and Circus Bella have their offices there.<ref name=challenge/> |
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From 1952 to 1993 the Woolworth's store at the base of the Flood Building was the largest in the chain; its size was then reduced, occupying only the basement level, and it closed in 1997.<ref name=Woolies>{{cite news |author=Kenneth Howe |url=https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/dime-store-era-comes-to-an-end-woolworth-2817259.php |title=Dime Store Era Comes To an End / Woolworth closing 400 outlets |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |date=July 18, 1997 |access-date=July 27, 2024 }}</ref> More recently, flagship stores for [[Gap (clothing retailer)|Gap]], [[Urban Outfitters]], and [[Anthropologie]] have been located in the building's retail space. The Gap store closed in 2020;<ref name=challenge/><ref>{{cite news |author=Shwanika Narayan |url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Most-San-Francisco-Gap-stores-close-permanently-15490808.php |title=Most San Francisco Gap stores close permanently, including Market Street flagship |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |date=August 18, 2020 |access-date=July 27, 2024 }}</ref> {{As of|2024|07|}}, Following [[COVID-19 pandemic in San Francisco|COVID-19]], Urban Outfitters is the only first-floor retail tenant, and there are a number of office vacancies.<ref name=challenge/> |
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| James C. Flood Building | |
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 Flood Building in 2017 | |
  James C. Flood Bldg. Location within San Francisco County  James C. Flood Bldg. James C. Flood Bldg. (California)  James C. Flood Bldg. James C. Flood Bldg. (the United States) | |
| Alternative names | James L. Flood Building 870 Market Street |
| General information | |
| Type | Commercial offices Retail space |
| Architectural style | Beaux-Arts |
| Location | 870 Market Street San Francisco, California |
| Coordinates | 37°47′06″N 122°24′27″W / 37.7849°N 122.4074°W |
| Completed | 1904 |
| Cost | US$1.5 million |
| Owner | The James C. Flood Family Mary E Stebbins Trust |
| Management | Wilson Meany Sullivan |
| Technical details | |
| Structural system | Steel frame |
| Floor count | 12 |
| Floor area | 293,000 sq ft (27,200 m2) |
| Lifts/elevators | 5 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | Albert Pissis |
| Developer | James L. Flood |
| Designated | 1982[1] |
| Reference no. | 154 |
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| [2] | |
The Flood Building is a 12-story highrise in the downtown shopping district of San Francisco, California. It is located at 870 Market Street on the corner of Powell Street, next to the Powell Street cable car turntable, Hallidie Plaza, and the Powell Street BART Station entrance. Designed by Albert Pissis and completed in 1904 for James L. Flood, son of millionaire James Clair Flood, it is one of the few major buildings in San Francisco that survived the 1906 earthquake and fire. As of 2024[update], it is still owned by the Flood family.[3]
Building
[edit]John King, the architecture critic of the San Francisco Chronicle, has described the Flood Building as "twelve stories of orderly pomp with a rounded prow that commands the corner of Powell and Market Streets ... Every detail is rooted and right, from the tall storefronts that beckon cable car daytrippers to the baroque cliff of the sandstone façade with its deep-chiseled windows."[4][5] Baroque revival in style, it is a steel-frame building clad in grey Colusa sandstone. A lobby with red marble columns traverses the building from Market to Ellis Street. The wedge-shaped office floors surround a lightwell; the corridors have white marble flooring and veined white marble walls, and have retained their wooden doors with openable transom windows.[3]
It became a San Francisco landmark in 1982.[1][6]
History
[edit]The site formerly housed Baldwin's Hotel and Theatre, which was destroyed by fire in 1898.[3][6] It was later purchased by James L. Flood, who constructed the building as a tribute to his father, James Clair Flood, the Comstock Lode millionaire).[6] Designed by Albert Pissis, it opened in 1904 as San Francisco's largest building.[3] In 1906, it was one of the few major buildings to survive the San Francisco earthquake and the fire that followed;[3] full restoration of the interior took two years.[6]
By World War II, the building had become medical and dental offices.[6] In 1950, the Flood family accepted a proposal from the F. W. Woolworth Company to replace it with a modern three-story store, which would revert to the family on the expiration of a 50-year lease. Instead, after the tenants had been evicted in preparation for demolition, the building was requisitioned by the Navy for logistics purposes during the Korean War, reverting to the Flood family after the war ended in 1953. The Navy returned the retail floors to the family, and in 1952 Woolworth's opened a store in the basement and on the first and second floors, on a 40-year lease.[3][6][7]
The building was renovated in the 1990s[3][8] at a cost of $15 million, and a bust of James L. Flood by his daughter Mary Ellen Flood Stebbins was installed in the lobby.[7]
Tenants
[edit]The Southern Pacific Railroad company had its headquarters in the Flood Building from 1907 until 1917 when it moved to its own building, now at One Market Plaza.[9]
The Pinkerton Detective Agency had an office on the third floor, where it employed the novelist Dashiell Hammett as an operative; Hammett located his fictional Continental Detective Agency in the building.[10]
Other office tenants have included the Teamsters and the Internal Revenue Service.[6] On the afternoon of January 27, 1975, the two-year anniversary of the ceasefire of the Vietnam War, demonstrators staged a takeover of the Consulate of South Vietnam, located above Woolworths.[11] [12] Until 2002, the building housed the consulate of Mexico; in 2003, eight consulates remained,[6] in 2020, two, those of Nicaragua and Chile.[7] In 2024, the Market Street Railway and Circus Bella have their offices there.[3]
From 1952 to 1993 the Woolworth's store at the base of the Flood Building was the largest in the chain; its size was then reduced, occupying only the basement level, and it closed in 1997.[8] More recently, flagship stores for Gap, Urban Outfitters, and Anthropologie have been located in the building's retail space. The Gap store closed in 2020;[3][13] As of July 2024[update], Following COVID-19, Urban Outfitters is the only first-floor retail tenant, and there are a number of office vacancies.[3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "City of San Francisco Designated Landmarks". City of San Francisco. Archived from the original on March 25, 2014.
- ^ "Emporis building ID 118775". Emporis. Archived from the original on March 7, 2016.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ a b c d e f g h i j John King (July 26, 2024). "S.F.'s Flood Building is a 120-year-old icon. Now it's facing its toughest challenge in decades". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved July 27, 2024.
- ^ John King (February 15, 2009). "Flood Building: Every detail is rooted, right". San Francisco Chronicle.
- ^ John King (2011). Cityscapes: San Francisco and its Buildings. Heyday. ISBN 978-1597141543.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Patricia Yollin (July 4, 2003). "Flood of Memories". The San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved July 27, 2024.
- ^ a b c Steve Rubenstein (February 22, 2020). "San Francisco's James Flood, descendant of Silver King, dies at 80". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved July 27, 2024.
- ^ a b Kenneth Howe (July 18, 1997). "Dime Store Era Comes To an End / Woolworth closing 400 outlets". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved July 27, 2024.
- ^ Don L. Hofsommer (1986). The Southern Pacific, 1981–1985. College Station: Texas A & M University Press. p. 70. ISBN 978-1-60344-127-8.
- ^ Audrey Medina (January 16, 2011). "5 places for finding the stuff of film noir". The San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved July 27, 2024.
- ^ The Conspiracy, magazine of the National Lawyers Guild, Volume 5, Number 4, page 6, March 1975, San Francisco, CA, https://content.wisconsinhistory.org/digital/collection/p15932coll8/id/15581/
- ^ (1975, January 28). San Francisco Chronicle, p. 1. Available from NewsBank: San Francisco Chronicle Historical Archive: https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=EANX-NB&docref=image/v2%3A142051F45F422A02%40EANX-NB-1516A427EC6F7C28%402442441-151473F7E8B8BA5C%400-151473F7E8B8BA5C%40.
- ^ Shwanika Narayan (August 18, 2020). "Most San Francisco Gap stores close permanently, including Market Street flagship". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved July 27, 2024.
External links
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Media related to Flood Building at Wikimedia Commons- Official website
