San Francisco Landmarks
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Bernard Maybeck designed this Mediterranean building for the Associated Charities of San Francisco, an organization dating back to 1889. In 1938 Associated Charities changed its name to Family Service Agency to better reflect its mission and to eliminate the historical stigma attached to the word charity.
When Maybeck's building was new, most of its neighbors were exquisite Italianate row houses like the Rothschild House next door and the Stadtmuller House a block away.
For decades, the Family Service Agency shared the intersection of Eddy and Gough Streets with St. Paulus Lutheran Church and the twenty-room Portman Mansion.
The Portman Mansion, built in 1888, was razed in 1959, one year after playing the role of the McKittrick Hotel in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo.

Some buildings designed by Bernard Maybeck: