The Hotaling Building is a historic building in
San Francisco
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,
California
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. It is located at 451
Jackson Street in
Jackson Square. It is a
San Francisco Designated Landmark
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.
History
It was built in 1866 by
Anson Parsons Hotaling to originally be a hotel. However, Hotaling later moved to the whiskey business. It was also one of the few surviving buildings after the
1906 Earthquake and Fire, thanks to a mile long fire hose that stretched through
Fisherman's Wharf and
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. Because of the saving of the building,
Charles K. Field[ once stated famously, "If, as they say, God spanked the town for being over-frisky, why did He burn His churches down and spare Hotaling's whiskey?"
After the earthquake and fire, the Hotaling business started to decline. However the building was revived in 1952 when Dorothy Kneedler Lawenda and Harry Lawenda of Kneedler-Fauchere purchased it and made it a center for their wholesale interior decorative design elements firm. The name Jackson Square was adopted, many buildings were renovated and the street became the interior design center for San Francisco for decades.
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See also
*List of San Francisco Designated Landmarks
This is a list of San Francisco Designated Landmarks. In 1967, the city of San Francisco, California, adopted Article 10 of the Planning Code, providing the city with the authority to designate and protect landmarks from inappropriate alteration ...
References
Buildings and structures in San Francisco
Hotel buildings completed in 1866
1866 establishments in California
San Francisco Designated Landmarks
Victorian architecture in California
Hotels in San Francisco
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