PacBell Building

Infobox Skyscraper
building_name= PacBell Building


PacBell Building's front entrance.
preceded= 225 Bush Street (San Francisco)
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location= 140 New Montgomery Street
San Francisco
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groundbreaking= 1924Cite web|title=PacBell Building|url=http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=1100|accessdate=2007-09-30|publisher=SkyscraperPage.com]
constructed= 1925
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use= Office
antenna_spire= Convert|460|ft|m|0|abbr=on
roof= ft to m|435|abbr=yes|precision=0
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floor_count= 26
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elevator_count= 10
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architect= Miller and Pflueger
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owner= The PacBell Building or 140 New Montgomery Street in San Francisco's South of Market district is a Neo-Gothic, 435 feet (133 m) office tower located close to the St. Regis Museum Tower and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.Cite web|title=140 New Montgomery Street|url=http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=pacbellbuilding-sanfrancisco-ca-usa|accessdate=2007-09-30|publisher=Emporis.com] The 26-floor building was completed in 1925 and was San Francisco's first significant skyscraper development when construction began in 1924. The building was the tallest in San Francisco until the Russ Building tied its 435 foot (133 m) height two years later in 1927. [Cite web|title=Russ Building|url=http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=russbuilding-sanfrancisco-ca-usa|publisher=Emporis.com|accessdate=2007-08-17] The building is illuminated at night.

The building was originally called the "Pacific Telephone Building." At the time of its construction, the operating telephone company it housed was Pacific Telephone & Telegraph, a member of the Bell System. The building had a bell motif in many places on its façade, most notably surrounding the arch over the main entrance doors on New Montgomery Street. After the breakup of the Bell System (AT&T) and the formation the regional so-called Baby Bell companies, Pacific Telephone changed its name to "Pacific Bell." The tower has an "L" shaped floor plan and the architecture decoratively incorporates spotlights to light the outside of the building. The building is one of the few large Art Deco buildings extant in San Francisco. [Cite web|title=The News Letter and the Telephone|publisher="San Francisco News Letter" - Diamond Jubilee Edition|url=http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist8/140telco.html|first=Richard C.|last=Smith|accessdate=2007-12-21|date=1925-09]

ee also

*Russ Building
*List of tallest buildings in San Francisco

References

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before=225 Bush Street
title=Tallest Building in San Francisco
years=1925—1965 133m
after=650 California Streetsuccession box
before=225 Bush Street
title=Tallest Building in California
years=1925—1928 133m
after=Los Angeles City Hall