The lofty mid-century “Baker & Hamilton” lettering at 601 Townsend has been looming over 7th and King streets for 70 years. The red brick building it stands on goes even further back, and even survived the great earthquake of 1906.
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Concerned that the city may be losing another 20th century icon in SoMa , we wanted to find out more. Built in 1905, as open land south of Market Street started filling with warehouses and manufacturers, the building was originally the headquarters of the Pacific Hardware and Steel Company, an industry giant founded by two of the famed “Big Four” railroad tycoons, Mark Hopkins and Collis P. Huntington.In January 1905, the San Francisco Call celebrated the 360,000-square-foot site, which at the time overlooked the Southern Pacific Railroad tracks on Townsend Street, as a “gigantic new plant.
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