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This building was located next door to the legendary Montgomery Block, built in 1853 by the Union Army General, lawyer, scholar and real estate investor, Henry Wager Halleck (1815–1872). The sculptor Ralph Stackpole taught at the California School of Fine Arts during the 1920s-1930s and became a well-connected artist in San Francisco, collaborating with such top architects as Timothy Pflueger (1892-1946) and participating in hi-jinx with the rich, famous and talented in the Bohemian Club. 716 Montgomery Street was located in the heart of the Barbary Coast, in the 1850s the legal and financial center of the city which became later in the century the most dissipated quarter of town filled with bars and bordellos. Stockpole's studio became a locus-point for artists in town, who could meet there or travel next door to the Montgomery Block which, by the 1890s, housed many prominent artists and writers.

PCAD id: 16484