Armour & Co. Building

1. 1902

   A four-storey brick warehouse was built here for the American Milling Company, flour and cereal millers, designed by Henry Geilfuss & Son and joined to the waterfront by a private wharf. The site, bay until the Gold Rush fill, had held saloons, lodgings, a laundry and small storehouses. The fire of 1906 left only its concrete foundations.

   National Register of Historic Places nomination, National Park Service
2. 1907

   Built as a meat-packing plant and smokehouse for Armour & Company, the Chicago packer, one of the firms that took the local meat trade after the earthquake: three storeys and a basement of load-bearing brick around heavy timber posts and beams, designed by Henry Geilfuss & Son, across the street from the National Ice & Storage Company's cold stores. Four windowless brick smoking ovens survive on each floor. It is perhaps the only industrial building by Geilfuss left; Armour stayed until about 1934.

   National Register of Historic Places nomination, National Park Service
3. 1940

   A fire damaged part of the timber framing, which was repaired.

   National Register of Historic Places nomination, National Park Service
4. 1944

   V. Traverso Company, wholesale grocers, bought the building as its warehouse and stayed until the firm was dissolved in 1964.

   National Register of Historic Places nomination, National Park Service
5. 1979

   Offices were fitted out over 1975 to 1979 with a lift, sprinklers, new stairs and, in 1979, a test kitchen in the basement; the smoking ovens were turned into washrooms, stores and meeting rooms.

   National Register of Historic Places nomination, National Park Service
6. Jul 1986

   Permit 8608300 $$$ $58,000

   Clean ext, calk, paint & apply water repellant, install canopy.

7. Dec 2001

   Permit 200112215828 $$$ $77,850

   Siesmic improvement-voluntary-to existing seismic bracing(additinl bolts at collector) install new a.

8. Apr 2002

   Permit 200204224549 $$$ $15,000

   Interior demolition non rated & structural walls at 1st fl&basement fl.

9. December 22, 2009

   Listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its place in the Chicago packers' takeover of San Francisco's meat trade after 1906, and as a late work of Henry Geilfuss & Son.

   National Register of Historic Places nomination, National Park Service
10. Feb 2013

    Permit 201302190390 $$$ $120,000

    Replace existing 40-ton split rooftop air conditioning unit with new 40-ton packaged rooftop air conditioning unit.

11. Jun 2014

    Permit 201406067774 $$$ $185,932

    1st floor: ti. includes demolition of non-structural partitions for office; electrical ductwork & lighting for new construction, mechanical, electrical, life safety/sprinklers to be submitted under separate permit (building is fully sprinkler); maher n/a.

12. Jun 2014

    Permit 201406259487 $$$ $25,339

    1st floor mechanical work for t.i. improvement. ref. appl # 201406067774. maher n/a.

13. Jun 2014

    Permit 201406279717 $$$ $6,180

    Relocate 11 pendent sprinklers on the 1st fl and add 1 upright.

14. Jul 2014

    Permit 201407111127 $$$ $63,000

    Barrier removal- bathroom renovation, mechanical/electrical./plumbing under seperate permit. n/a ordinance #155-13.

15. Oct 2014

    Permit 201410158938 $$$ $30,000

    Install new grease exhaust fan and duct for stove up to the roof, type (i) hood; maher n/a.

16. Apr 2015

    Permit 201504274693 $$$ $5,000

    Revision to pa 2015.0220.8899. ansul r102 fire suppression system in the kitchen hood & duct maher na.

17. Apr 2015

    Issued Permit 201504304984 $$$ $5,711

    Provide modification of existing sprinkler monitoring system. modification shall consist of providing monitoring of the new ansul system, install under permit application 201504274693. n/a ordinance #155-13.

18. Jun 2016

    Permit 201606149866 $$$ $5,000

    Minor modification of existing office space including demolition of non-load bearing partitions and doors. construction of partial height wall and patch & repair demolition scars with new paint and finishes. relocate low push button on exterior door.

19. Sep 2021

    Issued Permit 202109027694 $$$ $18,978

    Modify an existing building monitoring system, to replace and install new panel, add smoke detector above panel, a manual pull station, an annunciator at main lobby, monitor modules for water flow and tamper switch.

20. Sep 2024

    Permit 202409181072 $$$ $5,000

    Elevator modernization. modify existing fire alarm system.

21. Nov 2024

    Permit 202411014222 $$$ $120,000

    2nd and 3rd floor. ab-017 interior demolition of floors. demolition of non-strutural parttions, finishes and lighting. ab-017 exception to requirements for disabled access to vacent spaces. suite shall remain unoccupied until tenant improvement is filed.

22. Jul 2026

    Filed Permit 202607205288 $$$ $150,000

    Basement, 1st, 2nd, & 3rd floors: demolition only permit per ab-17.

DBI holds 33 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 33. 2 of them are nominal $1 street-space or sidewalk permits. 8 expired or cancelled permits are not shown.