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Overview

San Francisco architect A. Page Brown designed the Crocker Building for a site at the junction of Market, Post and Montgomery Streets. It was one of the few tall buildings to survive the Earthquake and Fire of 04/18-19/1906. Its upper stories were removed about 70 years after they were first built, leaving only the lower two.

Building History

A. Page Brown (1859-1896), the short-lived but highly productive architect, designed the Crocker Building for the Estate of Charles Crocker (1822-1888), one of the original "Big Four" of the Central Pacific Railroad.

Wells Fargo and Company purchased Crocker Bank in 1986 for $1 billion.

Building Notes

The architect Lewis Hobart(1873-1954) had his first office in the Crocker Building, c. 1908. Hobart and the Crockers would have a long professional relationship.

Alteration

The upper, eight, brick-faced floors of the Crocker Building were removed in the 1960s, leaving only two floors faced in stone.

PCAD id: 3650