Rialto Building

1. 1901

   Built.

2. 1902

   Built to plans by Meyer & O'Brien.

   Transit Center District Survey, adopted 2012
3. 1902

   The Rialto Building, built 1902 and rebuilt in 1910 after the 1906 Earthquake and Fire.

   South of Market Area Historic Context Statement, adopted 2011
4. 1902

   Built for Herbert and Hartland Law, eight storeys with terra cotta from the Steiger Terra Cotta and Pottery Works. Its H-shaped plan around a light court and its open floors, to be partitioned between the wide-set window mullions as tenants wished, reflected Frederick Meyer's recent visit to Chicago.

   National Register of Historic Places nomination, National Park Service
5. April 18, 1906

   The fire after the earthquake gutted the interior and destroyed the windows but left the shell standing. The building had just passed to Theresa Fair Oelrichs in the Laws' purchase of the Fairmont Hotel, and it stood empty for four years until the Laws took it back in a second exchange in February 1908.

   National Register of Historic Places nomination, National Park Service
6. 1910

   Repaired rather than replaced after the 1906 fire gutted it, and back in service by 1910.

   Transit Center District Survey, adopted 2012
7. 1910

   Designed by Bliss & Faville.

   Architecture, Planning & Preservation Professionals: A Collection of Biographies, adopted 2021
8. 1910

   The Rialto Building was rebuilt in 1910 after 1906 Earthquake damage.

   South of Market Area Historic Context Statement, adopted 2011
9. January 15, 1910

   The rebuilding was announced at a cost of $300,000, the exterior to be restored as it had been before the fire and the interior laid out with the same number of rooms.

   The San Francisco Call, 15 January 1910, p. 17
10. July 20, 1910

    The Otis Elevator Company contracted for four electric passenger elevators and three hydraulic sidewalk elevators for the Rialto Building.

    The San Francisco Call, 20 July 1910, p. 15
11. September 28, 1910

    The permit was issued for its reconstruction as a Class A building — brick walls, a terra cotta cornice, reinforced concrete floors, metal and plaster partitions, and oak and marble finishes.

    National Register of Historic Places nomination, National Park Service
12. August 1958

    Sold for $2 million.

    National Register of Historic Places nomination, National Park Service
13. August 10, 1964

    Photographed, showing the Wells Fargo Bank.

    San Francisco Subjects Photograph Collection (SFP 162), San Francisco Public Library
14. 1981

    The main lobby and corridors were restored and fire systems put in; the terra cotta cornice and brick parapet were taken down and reset, and the parapets were then braced with steel.

    National Register of Historic Places nomination, National Park Service
15. May 1983

    Permit 8304250 $$$ $1,295

    Sign - erect.

16. Apr 2001

    Permit 200104136730 $$$ $1

    Correct address from 90 new montgomery to 116 new montgomery (ref)200007296462.

17. 2008

    Recorded in the city's 2008 survey of the Transit Center District, adopted in 2012, as a contributor to the proposed New Montgomery, Mission & Second Historic District.

    Transit Center District Survey, adopted 2012
18. Oct 2008

    Permit 200810174453 $$$ $550,000

    Ground floor: new elevator cab interiors, refurbish marble floor, add missing door. 2nd fl: demolition non structural walls, ceiling tiels, light fixtures. new fire rated walls, new fire rated doors, suspenced ceiling and lighting. new hi lo drinking fountain. mep sep permit.

19. Aug 2010

    Permit 201008249427 $$$ $500,000

    Interior tenant improvement to existing offices. demolition of partitions ceililng grid and select lighting.new interior partition, lighting power, paint and carpet. mechanical, electrical, & plumbing on seperate permit.

20. Oct 2010

    Permit 201010203398 $$$ $276,880

    5th floor-t.i. includes demolition of non-structural partitions & build, new non-structural partitions. all new or revised hvac, electrical, lighting, plumbing & life safety work will be design build & submitted for permit seperately. building is partially sprinklered.

21. January 3, 2011

    Listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a rare office building of the turn of the century whose shell survived 1906, for the rebuilding of the Financial District after the fire, and for its H-plan architecture.

    National Register of Historic Places nomination, National Park Service
22. Jul 2013

    Permit 201307172024 $$$ $804,573

    7th floor t.i. to include selective demolition & construction of non-load bearing partitions, demolitoin of ceiling grid+tile to concrete slab above, new light fixtures including re-switching, new int doors, glazing+ frames, salvage+ reuse of existing selected materials, new electrical, millwork + finishes.

23. Jul 2013

    Permit 201307172028 $$$ $146,125

    2nd floor t.i. to include selective demolition & construction of non-load bearing partitions, demolitoin of ceiling grid+tile to concrete slab above, new light fixtures including re-switching, new int doors, glazing+ frames, galvage+ reuse of existing selected materials, new electrical, millwork + finishes.

24. Mar 2014

    Permit 201403100259 $$$ $506,500

    8th floor: non structural demolition new non-structural partitions, doors, ceiling, lighting, finishes, no change of occupancy use or area. n/a for the maher ordinanace and n/a for the interim control #428-13.

25. Jun 2014

    Permit 201406138371 $$$ $200,000

    Office tenant improvement on the 7th floor. to include mep and title 24. no structural work. life safety and fire sprinklers under separate permit.

26. Jun 2014

    Permit 201406239070 $$$ $326,700

    Ste200 2/f modification existing ti to include selective demolition & construction of non-load bearing partitions, demolition of ceiling grid & tile to the concrete slab above, new light fixtures incl reswitching, new interior doors, glazing & frames, salvage & reuse of, add ramp in terrace.

27. Aug 2014

    Permit 201408012820 $$$ $140,000

    Basement level - partial remodel of existing basement space to provide for bike storage & one unisex shower room.

28. Nov 2014

    Permit 201411060850 $$$ $556,118

    Remodel of existing 9th floor lobby & restrooms. installation of an amenity & private roof deck, including access stairs and ramps. deferred: alarm upgrade; sprinkler system modification to sprinkled the entire 9th floor(design building); removal of existing class 2 standpipe hose cabinet(design building) n/a maher.

29. Jan 2015

    Issued Permit 201501075071 $$$ $1,224,219

    4 fl: modifiction of existing t.i. to include selective demolition & construction of non-loadbearing partitions, demolition of ceiling grid & tile to conc slab above, nw light fixtures include reswitching, nw interior drs, glazing & frames, reuse of existing materials if practical, nw electrical., nw millwks, nw finishes.

30. Jan 2015

    Permit 201501075074 $$$ $1,224,219

    3rd floor: modification of existing t.i. to include selective demolition & construction of non-load bearing partitions, demolition of ceiling grid & tile to concrete slab above, new light fixtures, interior doors, glazing&frames, salvage/reuse of existing materials if practicable, new electrical, millwork & finishes; maher n/a.

31. Jan 2015

    Permit 201501075079 $$$ $280,422

    New accessible restrooms and renovation of existing elevator lobbies to include slelective demolition and construction of non load bearing paritions, demolition of ceiling grid tile to concrete slab abvove new light fixtures, new interior doors and frames, reuse of e materials where practical, new electrical, new.

32. May 2015

    Permit 201505196626 $$$ $1,224,219

    Modification of existing tenant improvement to include selective demolition and construction of non load bearing partitions, ddemo of e ceiling grid and tile, new light fixtures including reswitching, new interior doors, glazing, frames, new electrical, n millwork, finishes. restroom upgrade work prformed.

33. Nov 2021

    Issued Permit 202111081968 $$$ $300,000

    G/f: replacement of existing non-original storefronts along mission str and the three northernmost storefronts along new montgomery st. no removal of original fabric modification of interior vestible. no mep work on this permit.

34. Dec 2021

    Issued Permit 202112234967 $$$ $837,000

    T.i.constisting of specific suite build-outs for future ground floor retail. new restrooms @ ground floor. mep & elevator deferred. no work at historical facade.

35. Aug 2022

    Permit 202208080112 $$$ $1,484,280

    2/f: interior t.i: consisting of open work space and meeting rooms. new non-structural partitions, doors, ceilings, finishes, and millworks. mep deferred.

36. Nov 2022

    Permit 202211227075 $$$ $608,500

    8/f: ti to return space to single tenant work includes: install non-bearing interior partitions, new interior storefront systems, cinference & phone rooms, new single user restroom, new casework, new mep.

37. Dec 2022

    Permit 202212229042 $$$ $608,500

    5th fl non structural partions, new all gender restroom, casework, fixtures and finishes.

38. Jun 2023

    Permit 202306220567 $$$ $250,000

    2/f: mep drawings for permit. these are the engineered plan that are associated with permit application 202212168572 & 202306150173.

39. May 2025

    Issued Permit 202505297541 $$$ $500,000

    2nd fl ti - new non-structural partitions, interior storefront systems, lighting, electrical, plumbing. pantry upgrades. mep deferred.

DBI holds 316 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 316. 10 of them are nominal $1 street-space or sidewalk permits. 2 cancelled permits are not shown. The 2008 survey of this district dates the building to 1902; the assessor dates the building on this parcel to 1901. The report gives this building's address as 100 New Montgomery Street in its inventory table and 116 New Montgomery Street in its narrative, and its date as 1901 in the table and 1902 in the narrative. Volume A–C of the citywide professionals biographies dates the Bliss & Faville work on the Rialto Building 1910; volume D–F of the same collection dates it 1902.