Landmark 33
Sentinel Building
916-920 Kearny at Columbus
Financial District
Built 1907
Political boss Abe Ruef had started construction on the steel-framed Sentinel Building
before the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire. The frame survived and the building
was completed in 1907.
In the enlargement of the 1906 photograph, the northwest corner of the
Montgomery Block is visible to the left of the Sentinel Building, and the ruin
of the old Hall of Justice is visible to the right.
The Montgomery Block was demolished for construction of the Transamerica Pyramid,
shown in the 2004 enlargement. The large, banal building which stands behind
the Sentinel Building to the right is the Chinatown Holiday Inn which occupies
the Portsmouth Square site of the Hall of Justice.
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