{"nrhp_refnum":"89000009","name":"Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco","other_names":["Two Embarcadero Center West"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"400 Sansome St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"San Francisco","county":"San Francisco","state":"CA","lat":37.794254145000025,"lon":-122.40059070899997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-07-31","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Economics","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"An eight-story Neoclassical Revival bank and administrative building at 400 Sansome Street in San Francisco, built 1922-1924 for the Twelfth District Federal Reserve Bank to designs by architect George W. Kelham.","why_significant":"The building combines San Francisco's tradition of temple-style banks with the federal government's monumental Classical architecture. It is the work of architect George Kelham, muralist Jules Guerin and structural engineer H. J. Brunnier. It also covers the buried remains of the Gold Rush ship Apollo and served for about sixty years as head office of the Twelfth District Federal Reserve Bank.","narrative":"Occupying an entire half block at 400 Sansome Street in San Francisco's financial district, this eight-story bank was designed by George W. Kelham and first occupied in December 1923 as the home of the Twelfth District Federal Reserve Bank. Its brick walls are faced in Sierra White granite, and the facades read as two stacked three-story banking temples, with an Ionic portico set back from the street and topped by eight granite eagles. Inside, a travertine-finished lobby holds a 40-by-9-foot mural, The Traders of the Adriatic, by Jules Guerin, his only known San Francisco work. Structural engineer H. J. Brunnier worked with Kelham. The building was enlarged in stages between 1924 and 1957 and later altered inside. During 1925 excavation, workers found the remains of the Gold Rush sailing ship Apollo thirty feet down; forty artifacts were removed and the rest was covered again. The building is valued for its architecture, its designers and its role in the federal banking system.","period_of_significance":"1924-1982","architect_builder":"Kelham, George W.","architectural_style":"Neoclassical Revival (Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Now listed with current function as commerce/trade/business; the form notes the bank moved out of the building after some sixty years as head office. Alterations include a new Battery Street entrance.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:27.937995-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/89000009.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000009/733bfe0014-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000009/733bfe0014-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Frevi","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NRIS_89000009_San_Francisco_Federal_Reserve_Bank_-_Sansome_St_Elevation.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Frevi</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NRIS_89000009_San_Francisco_Federal_Reserve_Bank_-_Sansome_St_Elevation.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123861101","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Federal_Reserve_Bank_Building_(San_Francisco)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5440365"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/san-francisco/federal-reserve-bank-of-san-francisco-89000009/"}