420 Montgomery Street

Financial District · San Francisco, CA 94104

  • Built 1959
  • Commercial office
  • 12 stories
  • Class-A construction
  • Historic status: unevaluated
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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.

409,013 sq ftBuilding area
30,775 sq ftLot area
220Rooms

Permit history

  1. Jun 2023

    Roof removed and replaced to meet cool-roof requirements.

    Complete Permit 202306291147 $$$ $350,000
  2. May 2018

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

    Complete Permit 201805048292 $$$ $8,000,000
  3. Aug 2016

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

    Complete Permit 201608154963 $$$ $560,000
  4. Jul 2012

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

    Complete Permit 201207164904 $$$ $1,855,000
  5. Feb 2005

    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.

    Complete Permit 200502115321 $$$ $139,470
  6. Mar 1991

    Seismic bracing of the entry-lobby mezzanine.

    Expired Permit 9104053 $$$ $20,000

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.

Not yet documented: the architect and builder of the present building; what stood on the parcel between 1853 and 1959; and whether the street numbers used in 1878 correspond to today's, which nothing consulted here establishes. Know any of it? Tell us — just describe it in plain words.