| Hotel Name: | San Francisco Marriott Marquis |
| Location: | United States |
| Address: | 55 Fourth Street San Francisco, California |
| Chain: | Marriott Corporation |
| Coordinates: | 37.7849°N -122.4043°W |
| Pushpin Map: | United States San Francisco Central |
| Opening Date: | October 17, 1989 |
| Architect: | Zeidler Partnership Architects Daniel Mann Johnson & Mendenhall Anthony J. Lumsden Martin Middlebrook Louie |
| Operator: | Marriott International |
| Owner: | Host Hotels & Resorts |
| Number Of Rooms: | 1,362 |
| Number Of Suites: | 137 |
| Number Of Restaurants: | Bin 55 Mission Grille (closed) Fourth Street Bar & Grille (closed) The View "Mission Street Pantry" (opened 2015) |
| Floors: | 39 |
| Height: | 132.89m (435.99feet) |
| Parking: | US$13 hourly / US$58.14 daily |
| Website: | http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/sfodt-san-francisco-marriott-marquis/ |
| Footnotes: | [1] |
The San Francisco Marriott Marquis is a 133m (436feet) 39-story skyscraper in the South of Market neighborhood of San Francisco, California. Situated at the intersection of Fourth and Mission Streets, across from the Metreon and Moscone Convention Center, the building is recognizable by the distinctive postmodern appearance of its high-rise tower. The building was completed in 1989, and contains 1,500 hotel rooms.[2] The original architectural firm Zeidler Partnership Architects was replaced by DMJM architect Anthony J Lumsden, who gave the building its overall architectural style.[3] The San Francisco Marriott is the second tallest hotel in San Francisco, after Hilton San Francisco Tower I.
The hotel was at the heart of the city of San Francisco's development of the central blocks in the South of Market area during the late 1970s and early 1980s.[4] The city had put out an invitation to property developers to come up with ideas for the area. Ten developers originally responded and the eventual proposal chosen - in October 1980 - was a joint effort by Marriott together with the Canadian property developers Olympia and York.
The Marriott Marquis opened on October 17, 1989, the day of the Loma Prieta earthquake.[5] With better earthquake proofing than several nearby hotels, the building only lost a single window.
Local newspaper columnist Herb Caen complained that reflections from the hotel's windows blinded him in his office at the nearby Chronicle building, and compared its shape to that of a jukebox.
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