Landmark 12 (Right)
Hotaling Building
451 Jackson Street
Financial District
Built 1866
Landmark 13 (Left)
Hotaling Annex East
445 Jackson Street
Built 1866
Anson Parson Hotaling built 451 Jackson as a headquarters for his
various business interests which included liquor, real estate and
trade. The Italianate facade is cast iron with cast iron shutters
typical of contemporary advances in fire resistant construction.
The East Annex was originally a stable for a hotel, but Mr Hotaling
purchased both the East and West Annexes to warehouse his whiskey.
He and the whiskey business still prospered in 1906, and his buildings
survived the Earthquake and Fire. Clergymen scolded from the few remaining
pulpits that the disaster was God's divine retribution for the wickedness of
San Franciscans (same old same old). Charles Field responded:
If, as they say, God spanked the town
For being over-frisky,
Why did He burn His churches down1
And spare Hotaling's whiskey?
1 e.g.
St. Patrick's and
Old St. Mary's
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