The Hunter–Dulin Building (also known as the California Commercial Wool Building or 111 Sutter Street) is a class A office building located at 111 Sutter Street in San Francisco, California.
Description and history
The 25-story, 94 m (308 ft) tall building was completed in 1927. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 17, 1997.[7] The building was totally restored and renovated between 1999 and 2001.[citation needed]
The building served as the West Coast headquarters for the National Broadcasting Company from 1927 to 1942;[8] the executive offices were located on the 21st floor and the studio offices were located on the 22nd. The 22nd floor was later occupied by peer-to-peer lending firm Prosper Marketplace. [citation needed]
111 Sutter Street was the fictional location of the "Spade & Archer" detective agency in Dashiell Hammett's 1930 book, "The Maltese Falcon". According to Hammett, Sam Spade's office was located on the 5th floor.[citation needed]
As of May 2023, during what the San Francisco Chronicle described as "Downtown San Francisco['s] worst office vacancy crisis on record," 111 Sutter Street had a vacancy rate of 43.9%.[9]
References
- ^ "Hunter–Dulin Building". CTBUH Skyscraper Center.
- ^ "Emporis building ID 118888". Emporis. Archived from the original on March 7, 2016.
- ^ "Hunter–Dulin Building". SkyscraperPage.
- ^ Hunter–Dulin Building at Structurae
- ^ Platt, Bland (November 20, 1996). National Register of Historic Places Registration Form (Report). National Park Service. p. 3. Retrieved August 4, 2018.
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ John F. Schneider (2010). "The NBC Pacific Coast Network: The Hunter–Dulin Building – 1927". Bay Area Radio. Retrieved 1 September 2010.
- ^ "Hunter-Dulin Building, Financial District, San Francisco, CA". pcad.lib.washington.edu. Pacific Coast Architecture Database (PCAD).
- ^ Li, Roland; Devulapalli, Sriharsha (2023-05-08). "Downtown S.F. has 18.4 million square feet of empty office space. We mapped every vacancy". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2023-06-11.
Further reading
- "1926, Financial District, Hunter–Dulin Building". Vernacular Language North. 7 October 2005. Retrieved 1 September 2010.