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AKA: California College of the Arts, 1111 8th Street Building, San Francisco, CA
Structure Type: built works - infrastructure - transportation structures - bus terminals
Designers: Leddy Maytum Stacy (LMS) Architects (firm); Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM), San Francisco, CA (firm); William Leddy (architect); Marsha Ann Maytum (architect); John Ogden Merrill (architect); Walter Andrew Netsch (architect); Nathaniel Alexander Owings (architect); Louis Skidmore Sr. (architect); Richard Stacy (architect)
Dates: constructed 1951
2 stories, total floor area: 198,000 sq. ft.
Overview
The Greyhound Corporation, organized in 1929 and the parent company of the Greyhound Bus Line, commissioned the San Francisco office of Skidmore Owings and Merrill to design and erect this rectangular, steel-framed bus maintenance space in 1951. It contained 198,000 square feet and had a street frontage on 8th of 40 feet. It occupied a block bounded by 8th, Hooper, Irwin and 7th Streets. The building became the home of the California College of the Arts' graduate programs in 1998.
Building History
The architect Walter A. Netsch (1920-2008), then working in the San Francisco office of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, was the design partner in charge for this Greyhound Lines facility.
Building Notes
In 2016, according to the City and County of San Francisco Assessor, the building had a value of $8,942,310, the land, $13,936,958.
Alteration
The California College of the Arts converted the Greyhound Bus Maintenance Facility into its San Francisco Campus in 1997-1998. Leddy Maytum Stacy (LMS) was the renovation architect.
PCAD id: 20372
