Olympic Club City Clubhouse #3, San Francisco, CA (1893) demolished

Structure Type: built works - recreation areas and structures

Designers: Schulze and Meeker, Architects (firm); George Cook Meeker (architect); Henry Atherton Schulze (architect)

Dates: constructed 1893, demolished 1906

click to open gallery Exterior view of the ruins of the Olympic Club #3, San Francisco, CA, 1906. From National Archives, College Park, MD, Still Picture Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division, Item #8467279, H.D. Chadwick, photographer, 1906.
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Building History

A short notice published in the San Francisco Examiner in 1888 stated: “The Board of Directors of the Olympic Club last evening accepted the report of the Building Commission. Messrs. Schulze & Meeker received the first award of bonds, and W.H. Smith and J.H. Littlefield the second and third awards, respectively. The first award carries with it the supervision of the construction of the new building to be erected on Post street, between Mason and Taylor.” (See “The Olympic Club Building,” San Francisco Examiner, 08/18/1888, p. 8.)

The first purpose-built clubhouse for this organization was dedicated on 01/02/1893.

Demolition

The Olympic Club, City Clubhouse #2 burned on 04/18/1906 in San Francisco's Great Earthquake and Fire.

PCAD id: 3571

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