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Building History

The distinguished San Francisco architect Albert Pissis (1852-1914) designed the Hotel Cecil. Pissis was one of the first architects in the city to receive academic training at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France; he studied at the Ecole between 1872-1876, and also was one of the first of San Francisco's architects who would make an architectural pilgrimage to Rome. Pissis had a booming practice by the 1890s and again after the 1906 Earthquake.

Building Notes

This 109-room, 54-bath hotel also operated under various names: the Hotel Cecil (c. 1907), Hotel Russell (c. 1911), Hotel Kern (c. 1923), and William Perm Hotel (c. 1923-1984). The hotel was part of the Uptown Tenderloin Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places. It was one of 408 contributing buildings to this large historic district.