Neiman Marcus
150 Stockton Street
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1896
The Spring Valley Water Company put up its headquarters on this corner, with the City of Paris store on the first two floors and the water company's offices on the four above.
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1896
The City of Paris department store traded from the building from 1896 to 1972.
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1906
The building's interior collapsed in the 1906 earthquake and fire; the Geary and Stockton Street facades stood.
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1906-1907
City of Paris department store, designed by Arthur Brown Jr.
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1909
The interior was rebuilt for a 1909 reopening to designs by John Bakewell and Arthur Brown, Jr., assisted by Louis Bourgeois, who enlarged the rotunda into an ellipse rising through four floors under a skylight and an art glass dome figuring the ship La Ville de Paris.
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1909
An eight-storey building with a partial ninth floor, about 112,000 square feet in all, went up here; it was taken down with the City of Paris building for the Neiman-Marcus store.
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1909
The Clayburgh Building went up on the block's Geary Street frontage, at 125-129 Geary: four storeys of brick with terra-cotta ornament, three piers each topped by a medallion carved with a cowled, bearded face, and Chicago-style windows. Salfield & Kohlberg were the architects. A women's clothing shop, Koenig & Collins, took the ground floor, and lofts above held offices and other trades.
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April 23, 1909
Fink & Schindler company contracted for cabinet work for an exposition room on a six-storey and basement class A building for the City of Paris.
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January 17, 1974
The cornice of the City of Paris building had been removed, believed to have been done at the direction of another City department. By 17 January 1974 the Board of Supervisors and the Landmarks Preservation Advisory Board had been petitioned to designate the City of Paris building a landmark, and the Landmarks Board's staff had been asked to begin investigating it.
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June 5, 1974
The Landmarks Preservation Advisory Board initiated landmark designation of the City of Paris Building by Resolution No. 109, by a vote of four to two with two absent.
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July 11, 1974
The City of Paris Building was owned by Carter Hawley Hale and leased to City of Paris/Liberty House, a division of AMFAC, under a lease expiring late in 1974; the City of Paris store had ceased operating. The City Planning Commission unanimously disapproved the proposal to designate the former City of Paris Building a landmark, and declared it would use discretionary review on any new building on the corner to seek an exterior compatible with Union Square and a recreated interior open space, urging that the rotunda skylight be preserved for re-use.
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January 13, 1975
Designated State Historical Landmark No. 876 on 13 January 1975, and added to the National Register of Historic Places ten days later.
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1976
The Clayburgh Building was rated “2” in the city's architectural survey; the state's historic-resources database later carried it as “3S”, appearing eligible for the National Register on its own.
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March 17, 1977
The City of Paris building was to give way to a new Neiman-Marcus store, whose architect intended to recreate the old building's rotunda from its own elements.
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May 1987
Tenent remolding.
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Mar 1992
Non structural removals & construction of new interiors.
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1999
An evaluation prepared for the Neiman Marcus expansion reached the opposite conclusion: that the building's significance rested on its being a contributor to the Kearny-Market-Mason-Sutter Conservation District, and that only the facade retained its historic fabric.
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Jan 2004
Phase i retail t.i. (expansion appl#99010610) 5th & 6th floors and part of 2nd/3rd floor.no exterior.
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Feb 2004
Remodel/tenant improvement of existing retail store on floors ll, 1, 2, 3, & 4 interior remodel only.
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May 2006
Finish work and lighting for vendor areas on lower level (gucci) and 1st floor (chole & channel)new lighting for existing display windows on 1st floor. also vendors fendi, dior, guerlain.
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Mar 2008
Remove and replace (4) existing a/c units on the roof.
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Mar 2009
1st floor-demolition of walls, doors & partial ceiling. installation of interior partitions, new partial floor covering, partial suspended ceiling, lighting, minor mechanical & electrical sprinkler & fire alarm-under separate permit.
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Jul 2009
Vacate sub sidewalk basement along stockton st for new sq ft muni line and union square station. new 4 hr rated wall at basement along stockton st.
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Jul 2011
Interior tenant improvements on 2nd & 3rd floorson existing neiman marcus store. work includes new partitions, ceilings, millwork, lighting & mechanical. no exterior work. fire protection under seperate permit.
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Feb 2013
Remodel of gucci boutique: new interior walls, doors, ceiling and floor covering. 581 sq ft space. mechanical and electrical under separate permit application.
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Jan 2015
Basement level int. t.i. of "neiman marcus". work includes new partitions, fixtures, finishes, millwork, lighting & mechanical in approx 15, 200 sq ft. fire protection & shelving under separate pemrits.
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Feb 2016
Basement remodel area for tom ford vendor shop, includes interior partitions, ceiling, fixures and finishes. mechanical and electrical under seperate permit #201501165969.
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May 2019
3rd floor. interior improvements within an existingretail store. walls, doors, finishes, ceiling and lighting remodel.
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May 2019
1st floor. interior improvements within an existingretail store. walls, doors, finishes, ceiling and lighting remodel.
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Aug 2022
2/f ti of existing retail, new vendor, work to include millwork, flooring, finishes and electrical fixtures.
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Sep 2022
1/f: t.i. of existing retail including floor, finishes, millwork, partitions, merchanical, electrical.
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Nov 2022
1/floor: tenant improvement of retail space for new vendors, work to include demolition and installation of partitions, finishes, loose fixtures and ceiling and lighting remodel. mechanical and electrical work as req. no change of use, occupancy, egress, or zoning in the app. no exterior work.
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Mar 2023
Store in store interior only build with new non-load bearng walls, finishes, electrical fixtures, and wiring, hvac work.
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Apr 2024
2nd floor interior tenant improvement within existing retail store scope of work includes vendor shop build out including millwork and electrical no change in use, occupancy, egress or zoning.
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Aug 2024
2/f: ti for existing retail space, scope of work includes millwork, light mechanical work, ceiling lighting is existing to remain. fitting rooms and cash wrap are existing to remain. light partition (demolition) work. no change in use, occupancy, or zoning. (905 sq ft total).
DBI holds 158 permits for this parcel, most of them tenant improvements on individual floors. The timeline shows the 24 largest by stated cost, plus the earliest on file; the DBI query in the sources below returns all 158. 2 of them are nominal $1 street-space or sidewalk permits. 5 expired permits are not shown.
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