AKA: City of Paris, Department Store #1, San Francisco, CA
Structure Type: built works - commercial buildings - stores
Designers: [unspecified]
Dates: constructed 1851
This first dry goods store owned by the Verdier Brothers, Félix and Émile, operated at the southeast corner of Sutter Street and Kearny Street in Gold Rush-era San Francisco, CA. Newly rich miners could come here to blow their savings on fine French merchandise and champagne. The store prospered and, nine years later, moved to a new location in the luxurious Occidental Hotel at Montgomery and Sutter Streets.
PCAD id: 18692