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1855 Folsom Street

Mission · San Francisco, CA 94103

  • Built 1900
  • Garage
  • Zoned P
  • District 9
  • Historic status: unevaluated
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64,900 sq ftLot area
  1. 1927

    Built as the Illinois Pacific glass / F.W. Woolworth warehouse. Built by George Wagner. The survey names P. D. Burnett as engineer and George Wagner as builder.

    Showplace Square / Northeast Mission Historic Resource Survey, adopted 2011
  2. 1938

    Associated with the 1938 "Hot Box Car" incident.

    Showplace Square / Northeast Mission Historic Resource Survey, adopted 2011
  3. 1938

    The F. W. Woolworth Company warehouse here was the site the employers' association chose for the confrontation with warehouse Local 6 that became known as the Hot Box Car incident.

    Showplace Square / Northeast Mission Historic Resource Survey, adopted 2011
  4. Oct 2019

    Demolish existing piping for standpipe and install new strandpipe piping 4" pipe.

    Cancelled Permit 201910104178 $$$ $1

11 nominal $1 street-space or sidewalk permits are omitted from the timeline.

Not yet documented: the architect, the early tenants and the date of the last recorded sale. The assessor dates the building to 1900; the city's 2011 survey of Showplace Square and the northeast Mission dates it to 1927. Submit an update