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Historic Preservation Commission recommends landmarking 1 Montgomery Street (former Crocker National Bank)

San Francisco Historic Preservation Commission · August 4, 2021
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Summary

Planning staff recommended and the Commission voted to forward a landmark-designation recommendation for 1 Montgomery Street to the Board of Supervisors, citing its 1908 banking-hall interiors and association with Willis Polk; staff and San Francisco Heritage urged protections for banking halls' public access.

The Historic Preservation Commission voted to recommend that the Board of Supervisors designate 1 Montgomery Street — the former Crocker National Bank building — as a San Francisco landmark. Planning staff presented an eligibility report noting the building’s design by Willis Polk (1908), ornate interior banking halls with ornamental work by sculptor Arthur Putnam, and its significance in the reconstruction of the Financial…

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