AKA: United States Courthouse and Main Post Office, San Francisco, CA; United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit Courthouse, San Francisco, CA
Structure Type: built works - public buildings - courthouses
Designers: United States Government, Department of the Treasury, Office of the Supervising Architect, Taylor, James Knox (firm); James Knox Taylor (architect)
Dates: constructed 1897-1905
This courthouse, one of a large number designed the Supervising Architect of the United States Treasury, James Knox Taylor, remained in 2005, as one of a handful of Beaux-Arts Styled Courts of Appeal left in the U.S.; Taylor originally designed it to accommodate the Ninth Circuit of Appeals and Main Post Office of San Francisco, CA; National Register ID Number: 71000188; GSA Building Number: CA0096ZZ;
An addition was added in 1933; the building was damaged in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, and renovations occurred thereafter;
National Register of Historic Places (October 14, 1971): 71000188 NRHP Images (pdf) NHRP Registration Form (pdf)
PCAD id: 4799