Fallon Building
{{Short description|Historic building in San Francisco}}
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{{Infobox historic site
| name = Fallon Building
| image = File:1800 Market St - Carmel Fallon Building.jpg
| locmapin = San Francisco County#California#USA
| location = 1800 Market Street, San Francisco, California, 94102, U.S.
| coordinates = {{Coord|37.772355|-122.423938|display=inline,title}}
| designation1 = San Francisco
| designation1_date = November 8, 1998
| designation1_number = 223
| built = 1894
| built_for = Carmel Lodge Fallon
| architecture = Queen Anne
| architect = Edward D. Goodrich
}}
The Fallon Building, also known as the Carmel Fallon Building, is a historic mixed-use building built in 1894 and located in the Castro District of San Francisco, California.{{Cite news |last=Curtius |first=Mary |date=1999-02-17 |title=A City Torn Between Past and Present |pages=1 |work=The Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/113627200/a-city-torn-between-past-and-present/ |access-date=2022-11-25 |issn=0458-3035}}{{Cite news |last=Curtius |first=Mary |date=1999-02-17 |title=A City Torn Between Past and Present; History: Building Preservation Battles in San Francisco |pages=13 |work=The Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/113626957/history-building-preservation-battles/ |access-date=2022-11-25 |issn=0458-3035}} It is the home of the San Francisco LGBT Center since 2002.{{Cite web |last=Bajko |first=Matthew S. |date=September 6, 2015 |title=SF LGBT Center Plans Remodel |url=https://www.ebar.com/story.php?184172 |access-date=2022-11-26 |website=Bay Area Reporter |language=en-us}}
The building has been listed as a San Francisco Designated Landmark since November 8, 1998.{{cite web|title=City of San Francisco Designated Landmarks|publisher=City of San Francisco|url=https://sfplanning.org/sites/default/files/documents/preserv/bulletins/HistPres_Bulletin_09.PDF|access-date=2022-11-24}}{{Cite web |title=San Francisco Landmark #223: Carmel Fallon Building |url=https://noehill.com/sf/landmarks/sf223.asp |access-date=2022-11-25 |website=noehill.com}}{{Cite news |last=Lewis |first=Gregory |date=1998-10-10 |title=Fallon Building now city landmark |pages=8 |work=The San Francisco Examiner |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/113628153/fallon-building-now-city-landmark/ |access-date=2022-11-25 |issn=2574-593X}}
History
The Fallon Building is located at an intersection corner at 1800 Market Street in San Francisco.{{Cite web |last=Levy |first=Dan |date=July 16, 1998 |title=Landmark Status Puts Gay Center Closer to Reality |url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Landmark-Status-Puts-Gay-Center-Closer-to-Reality-3000641.php |access-date=2022-11-26 |website=San Francisco Chronicle |language=en-US |issn=1932-8672}} The three-story, 6,000-square-foot building was designed by architect, Edward D. Goodrich in a Queen Anne style.{{Cite book |last=Cerny |first=Susan Dinkelspiel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FkVQx6MWa8MC |title=An Architectural Guidebook to San Francisco and the Bay Area |date=2007 |publisher=Gibbs Smith |isbn=978-1-58685-432-4 |pages=67 |language=en}}
The structure was built in 1894 for Carmel Lodge Fallon (she has many variations of name, also known as Maria del Carmen Juana Josefa Cota Fallon, Martina Castro Fallon, or Carmelita Castro Fallon), a Californio entrepreneur and landowner, she had inherited land in the area of Soquel.{{Cite web |last=Michelson |first=Alan |others=University of Washington |title=Fallon, Carmel Building, San Francisco, CA |url=https://pcad.lib.washington.edu/building/2191/ |access-date=2022-11-25 |website=Pacific Coast Architecture Database (PCAD)}}{{Cite book |last=Powell |first=Ronald |url=https://history.santacruzpl.org/omeka/files/original/fc6a9583351e3e8df793ddf4667a9a23.pdf |title=The Castros of Soquel |date=2019 |others=Stanley D. Stevens (introduction) |pages=9, 12}} She was divorced from Thomas Fallon, a United States Army Commander that had conquered the city of San Jose for the United States in 1846, and he later served as the mayor of the city.{{Cite web |last=Levy |first=Dan |date=November 12, 1997 |title=Planned Razing of Victorian House Raises Battle Cry in Castro |url=https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Planned-Razing-of-Victorian-House-Raises-Battle-2822932.php |access-date=2022-11-27 |website=SFGate |language=en-US}} Fallon was also the niece of José Antonio Castro, the last Mexican Governor of Alta California; and the namesake of the Castro District and Castro Street.{{Cite web |date=2021-11-04 |title=The story behind the new names for two historic sites in San Jose |url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/11/04/the-story-behind-the-new-names-for-two-historic-sites-in-san-jose |access-date=2022-11-25 |website=The Mercury News |language=en-US |issn=0747-2099}}{{Cite book |last=Martinez |first=Linda Castro |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SyY5EAAAQBAJ |title=Encarnación Castro’s Journey In The Anza Expedition 1775-1776: And the Founding of San Francisco and San Jose, California |date=2021-07-15 |publisher=Covenant Books, Inc. |isbn=978-1-63630-580-6 |pages=198 |language=en}}
In December 1996, the San Francisco LGBT Community Center purchased the building. The Fallon Building had been subject to decades long debates on architecture preservation, and subject to many remodels. The group, "Friends of 1800 Market Street" was formed by Jim Siegel and others, named after the address of the Fallon Building with the mission of preserving the architectural heritage of San Francisco, among other things.
References
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External links
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- [https://www.sfcenter.org/ Official website of SFLGBT Center]
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Category:San Francisco Designated Landmarks
Category:Castro District, San Francisco
Category:1890s architecture in the United States