The Deleted Scenes - The Office Space is All Tied Up
This is a building in downtown San Francisco, now called 130 Bush: (Credit Todd Lappin/Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0.) It’s nine stories tall, but only about 20 feet wide. It’s now an office building, with a restaurant in the ground floor space, but it didn’t begin that way. It closely resembles a modern extra-tall rowhouse-style apartment building, like this: Meet the mini-midrise: five stories of housing over a storefront on a 25-foot wide lot. nationalpost.com/life/homes/ris… But it did not begin life as a residential building. Well, if it wasn’t offices or apartments, there aren’t many other options for a downtown building, are there? (Infrastructure buildings like pump houses could be beautifully built, but that type of thing wouldn’t be in this location.) It was a factory. And not just any factory, but a necktie and suspender factory. In other words, a remnant of an era when this stuff was made in American city centers. This neighborhood is now part of the Financial District. From Curbed:
And from Atlas Obscura:
That reminds me a little of my old D.C. office, which was in this building in the middle. It used to be flanked by different buildings; somewhere in the lobby there was a black-and-white photo hanging, showing the since-demolished buildings on either side. It’s interesting how on a block of connected structures, individual buildings still come and go. The street of Theseus. Related Reading: What Do You Think You’re Looking At? #27 Thank you for reading! Please consider upgrading to a paid subscription to help support this newsletter. You’ll get a weekly subscribers-only post, plus full access to the archive: over 400 posts and growing. And you’ll help ensure more material like this! You’re a free subscriber to The Deleted Scenes. For the full experience, become a paid subscriber. |
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