Mills Building and Tower

{{Infobox building

| name = Mills Building

| image = Mills Building wide.jpg

| caption = Mills Building. Mills Tower in behind right.

| alternate_names = Mills Building and Tower
220 Bush Street
220 Montgomery Street

| location = 220 Bush Street
220 Montgomery Street
San Francisco, California

| coordinates = {{coord|37.79127|-122.40129|region:US-CA|display=inline,title}}

| pushpin_map = United States San Francisco Central#California#USA

| completion_date = 1892, 1931

| building_type = Commercial offices

| roof = {{convert|46.94|m|abbr=on}}
{{convert|92|m|abbr=on}}

| floor_count = 10 / 22

| elevator_count =

| cost =

| floor_area =

| architect = Burnham & Root
D.H. Burnham & Company
Willis Polk
George W. Kelham
Lewis Parsons Hobart

| structural_engineer=

| main_contractor =

| developer =

| owner = The Swig Company

| management = The Swig Company

| nrhp = {{Infobox NRHP

| name = Mills Building and Tower

| embed = yes

| nrhp_type =

| refnum = 77000334

| architecture = Chicago school

| designated_nrhp_type = 1977

| designated_other1 = San Francisco

| designated_other1_number = 76

| designated_other1_date = 1975{{cite web|title=City of San Francisco Designated Landmarks|publisher=City of San Francisco|url=http://www.sf-planning.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=5081|accessdate=2012-10-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140325040805/http://sf-planning.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=5081|archive-date=2014-03-25|url-status=dead}}

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The Mills Building and Tower is a two-building complex following the Chicago school with Romanesque design elements in the Financial District of San Francisco, California. The structures were declared San Francisco Designated Landmark #76,{{cite web | author= | title=Mills Building and Mills Tower | url=http://www.noehill.com/sf/landmarks/sf076.asp | work=Noehill | year=2010 | accessdate=27 August 2010}} and were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.{{cite web | url=http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/CA/San+Francisco/state2.html | title=National Register Information System | date=2007-01-23| work=National Register of Historic Places | publisher=National Park Service | accessdate=18 November 2010}}{{cite web | author= | title=Mills Building and Mills Tower: National Register #77000334 | url=http://www.noehill.com/sf/landmarks/nat1977000334.asp | work=Noehill | year=2010 | accessdate=27 August 2010}}

History

Image:Mills Building (San Francisco).jpg

The original 10-story, {{convert|47|m|abbr=on}} structure was designed by Burnham and Root/D.H. Burnham & Company completed 1892; and after surviving the 1906 earthquake, was restored by Willis Polk in 1908, who oversaw subsequent additions in 1914 and 1918.{{cite web | author=Robert Mix | title=Willis Polk in San Francisco (1907-1913) | url=http://www.verlang.com/sfbay0004ref_slideshow_wp_sf_03.html#220_montgomery | work=Vernacular Language North | date=2 September 2005 | accessdate=27 August 2010}} Named for early San Francisco financial tycoon, Darius Ogden Mills, it is regarded as the city's second skyscraper, after the Chronicle Building (1890).{{cite book|author=Susan Dinkelspiel Cerny|title=An Architectural Guidebook to San Francisco and the Bay Area|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FkVQx6MWa8MC&pg=RA1-PR1|date=January 2007|publisher=Gibbs Smith|isbn=978-1-58685-432-4|page=13}}

Completed in 1932 at 220 Bush Street, Mills Tower is a 22-story, {{convert|92|m|abbr=on}} annex designed by George W. Kelham and Lewis Parsons Hobart.

The Mills Building is home to several major financial firms, including SeatMe, Pocket Gems, New York Stock Exchange, and Newedge.{{cite web | author= | title=The Mills Building - Current Tenants | url=http://www.themillsbuilding.com/tenlist/index.html | publisher=The Swig Company | year=2010 | accessdate=27 August 2010}}

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