46 Geary Street

1. 1906

   Commissioned in 1906 and designed by Bliss and Faville: a three-storey brick box about twenty-five feet tall, a bearing-wall structure with wood joists, its front less formal than its neighbour's, with the street and mezzanine floors as base and a modest parapet above. Both fronts carried Renaissance Revival detail.

   46 Geary Street initial study, SF Planning Dept., 2004
2. October 12, 1906

   G. H. Moore contracted to put up a three-storey brick building.

   The San Francisco Call, 12 October 1906, p. 13
3. 1907

   Built.

4. 1907

   A narrow three-storey masonry building, one of a pair raised on a single lot after the fire. The building permit of 17 July 1906 names Meyer and O'Brien as its architects; it was a bearing-wall structure with wood joists, its front a tripartite composition under a tall parapet and projecting cornice, and it has always held shops with offices or flats above. A third floor was added between 1906 and 1917.

   46 Geary Street initial study, SF Planning Dept., 2004
5. 1956

   Built as the California Savings Bank to designs by the architect Ward Thomas, and photographed new in 1956: an open front, an open-plan interior, opaque spandrel panels, a projecting box overhang, a blade sign and floated lighting ceilings made of 50-foot plastic fixtures fitted with fluorescent tubes.

   Neighborhood Commercial Buildings Historic Context Statement, adopted 2022
6. 1956

   The California Savings Bank, designed 1956 by Ward Thomas: an open visual front, open-plan interior, opaque spandrel panels, a projecting box overhang, a blade sign, and "floated lighting ceilings" of fifty-foot plastic fixtures fitted with fluorescent tubes.

   Modern Architecture and Landscape Design Context Statement, adopted 2011
7. 1956

   In 1956 the architect Ward Thomas combined the two buildings that stood here into one. The first seventy feet of their two masonry party walls came out, replaced by steel columns and beams to give a column-free interior behind the new front. Only the Maiden Lane elevations keep their original material.

   46 Geary Street initial study, SF Planning Dept., 2004
8. May 1982

   Permit 8203611 $$$ $500

   Building use: comml.

9. Dec 1982

   Permit 8210285 $$$ $20,000

   Additions alterations or repairs.

10. Jun 1983

    Permit 8305119 $$$ $6,954

    Furnish and install two sliding aluminum grilles.

11. Apr 1991

    Permit 9107119 $$$ $250,000

    Interior remodel.

12. Nov 2005

    Permit 200511238943 $$$ $220,000

    Umb - seismic retrofit work. remove 1st floor mezzanine. lower part of 2nd floor. general procedure.

13. Mar 2006

    Issued Permit 200603176961 $$$ $8,000

    Remove sheetrock and t bar ceiling on g/f, soft interior demolition only - space to remain vacant until t.i. permit completed.

14. Dec 2006

    Permit 200612129721 $$$ $800,000

    Partial tenant improvement - entire building upon completion of umb retrofit. sprinkler under separate permit. change in use s-1 to a-3.

15. Dec 2006

    Permit 200612129712 $$$ $15,000

    Core and shell retrofit/structural umb. reference set to be submitted separately.(app#200611238943).

16. Jun 2008

    Permit 200806043637 $$$ $1,500,000

    Interior t.i. for new retail store on 1st & partial 2nd floor. work includes new partitions, fixtures, finishes, mechanical & lighting. also new communicating stair between 1st & 2nd floors. facade under seperate permit. fire protection under seperate permit.

17. Jun 2008

    Permit 200806184752 $$$ $56,000

    Install a fire sprinkler system to protect the entire building.

18. Aug 2008

    Permit 200808189393 $$$ $285,000

    Renovation of facade on geary street and on maiden lane.

19. Sep 2008

    Issued Permit 200809080994 $$$ $23,000

    To complete work for permit application 200511238943.

20. Sep 2008

    Permit 200809080991 $$$ $15,000

    To complete work on pa200612129712.

21. Sep 2008

    Permit 200809192177 $$$ $45,000

    Install hvac system in basement(200612129721 r-2)main unit already in building.

22. Dec 2008

    Permit 200812027560 $$$ $6,500

    Relocate & add fire sprinkler heads per tenant improvements. 33 relocated & add 6.

23. Feb 2009

    Permit 200902111881 $$$ $9,800

    Provide audio visual tenant improvement fire alarm system upgrade for paul smith @ 46 geary street.

24. Sep 2013

    Permit 201309308050 $$$ $50,000

    Change ownership - remove existing 1 of 2 bars, ada toilet remodel, lighting & ceiling remodel, add new dance floor, remodel interior finishes.

25. Dec 2013

    Permit 201312103814 $$$ $126,000

    Interior remodel. relocate stockroom from 2nd floor to 1st floor, demolition furniture and fixtures. some electrical and hvac. no exteriorwork. no structural work.

26. Mar 2018

    Permit 201803083181 $$$ $130,000

    Interior t.i. work only. reconfiguring tenant space to provide an open layout. new kitchen, conference room, phone booths, new lighting, and rework hvac ductwork.

27. Nov 2020

    Issued Permit 202011058296 $$$ $16,000

    46 geary - emergency facu replacement: (1) new facu, (1) new cellular dialer with monitor module to report trouble to facu, (1) new remote annunciator.

DBI holds 54 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 54. 8 of them are nominal $1 street-space or sidewalk permits. 5 expired or cancelled permits are not shown. This building is dated 1956 in the historical record; the assessor's roll gives the parcel a build year of 1907.