AKA: Morris Gift Shop, Union Square, San Francisco, CA; Howie, Helga Boutique, Union Square, San Francisco, CA

Structure Type: built works - commercial buildings - stores

Designers: Taliesin Fellowship (firm); Aaron Gus Green (architect); Frank Lloyd Wright (architect)

Dates: constructed 1949

2 stories

140 Maiden Lane
San Francisco, CA 94108-5302

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Originally operated as a gift store, later became an art gallery; this famous little store featured the same spiral circulation system utilized in the Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY;

PCAD id: 2162

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Publications

"Morris, V.C., Store article", Architectural Forum, 2/1950. Woodbridge, Sally B., Woodbridge, John B., Architecture San Francisco: The Guide, 5, 1982. Antoniades, Anthony C., Architecture and Allied Design: An Environmental Perspective, Second Edition: 123-124, 1986. Hitchcock, Henry-Russell, Drexler, Arthur, Built in USA: Post-War Architecture, 118-119, 1952. Maddex, Diane, "Morris Gift Shop", Frank Lloyd Wright Inside and Out, 228-231, 2001.