Building History

In 1883, the Hansa Hotel stood at 429 Bush Street. (See W.C. Disturnell, Disturnell's Strangers' Guide to San Francisco and Vicinty, [San Francisco: W.C. Disturnell, Publisher, 1883], p. 96.)

Before the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, C.R. Hansen and Company, an employment service, occupied space in this building at 429 Bush Street. Hansen moved into 429 Bush after 03/31/1902, at a time when the California Hotel operated across the street. (See the C.R. Hansen and Company classified ad, San Francisco Call, 03/26/1902, p. 10.)

In 2018, the Irish Bank Bar and Restaurant operated its business in the storefront at 431 Bush Street.

Building Notes

The brick-faced apartment building at 429 Bush Street had a gracious, French-influenced style. Entry to the apartments above was topped by a segmental arch, above which was a trabeated molding, supported by scrolled consoles. Lions heads stood above these consoles, and above the trabeated frieze stood symmetrical arrangements of scrolled foliate ornamentation, with a palmette in the center. A course demarcated the top of the first floor from the bottom of the second, detailed with a graceful wave molding. The upper four stories contained two bays, with floors two through four having pairs of double-hung windows, inset among three pilasters composed of projecting blocks. The architect graced the capital of the pilaster with an original composition of swags, cartouches and other detailing loosely derived from grotesque compositions. At the top of the pilasters, each was decorated with egg and dart moldings. An entablature, lined with a lambs tongue molding, separated the top of the fourth floor from the bottom of the fifth. Two pairs of arched windows lit the top floor apartments, each arch trimmed with head moldings. Carved brackets punctuated the center of these arched moldings. The building's parapet was decorated by a rich entablature supported by three festooned ancons, and decorated with a wide architrave, a frieze layer ornamented with a dentil band and block modillions, and completed on top by a finely-detailed fillet layer underneath the crown molding of the cornice.

In 2018, the building, having the street addresses 429-431 Bush Street, occupied a 3,437.5-square-foot lot. The five-story structure contained 30 units with 56 rooms.