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AKA: Chinese Merchants' Exchange Building, San Francisco, CA
Structure Type: built works - commercial buildings - office buildings; built works - public buildings - assembly halls
Designers: [unspecified]
Dates: [unspecified]
Overview
Racially excluded from San Francisco's main Merchants Exchange Building used by Euro-American businessmen, the Chinese-American community in San Francisco built and operated their own exchange by at least 1883.
Building History
in 1883, the building at 739 Sacramento Street housed both the Chinese Merchants Club as well as the Chinese Merchants Exchange. (See San Francisco, California, City Directory, 1883, p. 308.)
A note in the book, Industries of San Francisco, printed in 07/1884, stated: "The rooms of the Chinese Merchants' Exchange, organized by Chinese merchants to promote the interests of trade and commerce, are located at 729 Sacramento Street. Following is the list of officers: Wing Chong Wo & Company, President; Quong Chong Sing & Company, Vice-President; Bow Wing, First Secretary; Hang Far Low, Second Secretary." (See Industries of San Francisco, Fred H. Hackett, ed., [San Francisco: Payot, Upham and Company, 1884], p. 20)
PCAD id: 20334
