44 Montgomery Explained

44 Montgomery
Location:44 Montgomery Street
San Francisco, California
Coordinates:37.7898°N -122.4018°W
Pushpin Map:United States San Francisco Central
Highest Region:San Francisco
Highest Prev:Hartford Building
Highest Next:Bank of America Center
Start Date:1964
Completion Date:1967
Status:completed
Building Type:Commercial offices
Antenna Spire:180.7m (592.8feet)
Roof:172.2m (565feet)
Floor Count:43
Elevator Count:18
Floor Area:760524square feet
Architect:John Graham & Company
Management:Seagate Properties
References:[1]

44 Montgomery is a 43-story, 172m (564feet) office skyscraper in the heart of San Francisco's Financial District.[2] Groundbreaking was in the spring of 1964.[3] When completed in 1967, it was the tallest building west of Dallas, surpassed by 555 California Street (built as the world headquarters of Bank of America) in 1969. The building was designed, built and dedicated for Wells Fargo Bank, and their IT subsidiary was based there at one time (the bank's headquarters are at 464 California Street).[4]

44 Montgomery, as part of the original design anticipating the then-under-construction Bay Area Rapid Transit subway system, contains direct underground access to the Montgomery Street Station.

History

The State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio purchased the building from AT&T in 1997 for $111 million. In 2017, Beacon Capital purchased it for $473 million.[5]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Emporis building ID 118786 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160422044657/https://www.emporis.com/buildings/118786 . dead . April 22, 2016 . Emporis.
  2. Web site: [Robert M. Haynie signing a contract for structural steel to be used in a new Wells Fargo Bank building while Fred McPherson and D. R. McCaa look on] San Francisco Public Library]. 2021-08-04. digitalsf.org.
  3. News: April 17, 1964. Dancing Stallion. 68. San Francisco Examiner.
  4. Some sources (as well as news reports during construction) list 44 Montgomery as the Wells Fargo world headquarters, but Wells Fargo annual reports going back to 1967 list either 464 California Street or 420 Montgomery Street as the official headquarters for Wells Fargo Bank and Wells, Fargo and Company (after 1969).
  5. Web site: Andrew Nelson. 2021-08-19. Number 20: 44 Montgomery Street, Financial District, San Francisco. 2021-09-01. San Francisco YIMBY. en-US.