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Originally, brothers Félix and Émile Verdier opened a store for Gold Rush-era San Francisco in La Ville de Paris, a moored ship in 1850. Its stock of high-quality, imported French merchandise sold out immediately, before the stock could be removed from the ship. Encouraged and resupplied, the Verdiers opened their first brick-and-mortar store on Sutter and Kearny Streets' southeast corner in 1851. By 1860, it had moved into space provided by the swank Occidental Hotel at Stockton and O’Farrell Streets. In 1880, this ornate, Second Empire Style building, its four-floor facade an undulating wave of bay windows, served as the City of Paris Department Store until about 1896. Like many commercial buildings of the 1880s, it had a rounded corner punctuated by a cupola on top. It was replaced by a Clinton Day building that was destroyed by the April 1906 San Francisco Earthquake.

Demolished.

PCAD id: 6052