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Building History

According to architectural historian Harold Kirker, the Globe Hotel was used as a warehouse in its later years.

Building Notes

The Globe Hotel had the appearance of an Italian Renaissance palazzo, years before the building type became used more commonly by Beaux-Arts-trained architects after 1880. Architectural historian Kirker praised the "beautiful proportions and superb stuccowork" of the Globe Hotel. He contnued: "The capricious ornamentation of the window frames in the second and thrid stories recalls Viennese palace architecture and hints that Hoffman may have emigrated from the old Hapsburg empire. The extraordinary quality of the stuccowork suggests the talents of two little-known pioneer architectural plasterers, Carpeaux and Pepin, the latter of whom is said to have won a first prize at the University of Paris for excellence in design and execution of his art." (See Harold Kirker, California's Architectural Frontier: Style and Tradition in the Nineteenth Century, [Salt Lake City: Gibbs M. Smith Incorporated, 1986], p. 78.)

Demolition

The Globe Hotel in San Francisco was torn down.

PCAD id: 17278