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District 3 · Block 0239, Lot 026 · ZIP 94104

420 Montgomery Street

Office building

  • 12 stories
  • 409,013 ft2
  • 30,775 ft2 lot area
  • 2 residential units
  • 220 rooms
  • 59 bathrooms
  • Zoned C-3-O
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Samuel Brannan put up the second of a pair of Montgomery Street buildings on this site in 1853; the building standing here replaced it.

  1. 1853

    Brannan buildings

    Samuel Brannan erected buildings at 400 and 420 Montgomery Street out of the profits of real-estate investments; they were then considered ornaments of the city and evidence of confidence in its future.

    John S. Hittell, A History of the City of San Francisco and Incidentally of the State of California (San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft & Company, 1878), section 231
  2. 1959

    Built.

  3. Feb 2005
    Permit 200502115321 $$$ $139,470

    Fire sprinklers installed on the sixth and ninth floors, the penthouse and mechanical penthouse and part of the ground floor, under the high-rise retrofit ordinance.

  4. Jul 2012
    Permit 201207164904 $$$ $1,855,000

    New exterior maintenance and window-washing system, with new and modified code-compliant guardrails.

  5. Aug 2016
    Permit 201608154963 $$$ $560,000

    Voluntary one-for-one replacement of the fire-alarm system, with no associated construction.

  6. May 2018
    Permit 201805048292 $$$ $8,000,000

    Whole-building electrical service replacement and distribution repair, with the architectural, plumbing and HVAC work needed to accommodate it.

  7. Jun 2023
    Permit 202306291147 $$$ $350,000

    Roof removed and replaced to meet cool-roof requirements.

Six of the 268 filings on this address are shown; the rest are office tenant improvements floor by floor and the mechanical, electrical and fire-alarm permits that accompany them. 1 expired permit is not shown. Business addresses are usually deferred on this site; this page exists because the address was named in the prompting source.

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