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San Francisco Points of Interest
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20 October 2002
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Design rendering submitted by Eliel Saarinen in 1922 to the competition for the Tribune Tower. This design won second prize.
Courtesy Library of Congress
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. Building
134-140 New Montgomery Street
Built 1925
134-140 New Montgomery Street
Built 1925
The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. Building, designed by Miller and Pflueger, is perhaps the finest 20th century building in San Francisco.
Its Gothic towers are topped with Moderne sculpted eagles and lotus flowers.
The design was influenced by Eliel Saarinen's highly influential design for the Chicago Tribune Tower, drawn in 1922, but never built.