140 Ellis Street
Union Square, Tenderloin · San Francisco, CA 94102
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1855
Jonathan Kittredge, owner of the Phoenix Iron Works, built a two-and-a-half-storey gabled Carpenter Gothic house on the north side of Ellis Street between Powell and Mason for his Christmas Eve marriage. The homestead included an artesian well, a small backyard orchard and a cow.
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Jan 1987
The sidewalk slab rebuilt.
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Nov 2001
Unreinforced-masonry seismic retrofit of the hotel and its ground-floor retail, with accessibility work.
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Sep 2006
A new entrance on Ellis Street and a new sidewalk, a new stair from the ground floor to the basement, and a change of occupancy, with new walls, kitchen, restrooms and HVAC.
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Sep 2010
Meeting, breakfast and fitness rooms built in vacant street-level space, with a new steel structure creating an additional storey between the first and second levels to carry hotel offices.
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Dec 2012
An interior remodel of 17,315 sq ft across the first basement and first floor, changing the use to include new assembly space.
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Sep 2014
The aluminium storefront system replaced, and a steel and glass canopy added above the lobby entrance.
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Jan 2019
The basement restaurant renovated — new interior partitions and finishes, new structural openings in the existing roof and structural walls, and new plumbing and electrical work.
Seven of the 140 filings on this parcel are shown — the largest by stated cost, plus the earliest that carries a description. The rest are fire-alarm and sprinkler permits, sign and street-space permits, fee revisions to the permits above, and the filings DBI holds under the parcel's Cyril Magnin Street numbers. The earliest filing on file, from February 1983, has no description recorded.
Not yet documented: the architect and builder of the present building; when the Kittredge house came down; and what stood on the lot between 1855 and the 1908 date the assessor's roll and SF Planning both give this one. Submit an update