New Montgomery Street

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| location = San Francisco, California

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| direction_a = West

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File:New Montgomery street facing north from Howard st.jpg

New Montgomery Street, formerly Montgomery Street South, begins at Market Street and terminates at Howard Street in the SOMA district of San Francisco, California.

History

Before New Montgomery Street was created, an inner street called Jane Street ran parallel to Second and Third Street.{{cite web|first=Anne B.|last=Bloomfield|title=Commercial Development|url=http://foundsf.org/index.php?title=COMMERCIAL_DEVELOPMENT|work=Shaping San Francisco's Digital Archive|accessdate=28 August 2013|archive-date=14 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131014232455/http://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=COMMERCIAL_DEVELOPMENT|url-status=live}} In the 1870s, Montgomery Street South was established in its place as the southern extension of Montgomery Street, one of the main thoroughfares in San Francisco's Financial District, running north from Market to Telegraph Hill. The extension was strongly supported by businessman and Bank of California founder William Ralston – who started the construction of the original Palace Hotel, at the time the largest hotel in the Western United States – in an effort to expand San Francisco's business district to the yet undeveloped area south of Market.{{cite book|last=Fogelson|first=Robert M.|title=Downtown: Its Rise and Fall, 1880-1950|year=2003|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=9780300098273|page=114}}{{cite book|title=Reclaiming San Francisco: History, Politics, Culture|year=1998|publisher=City Lights Books|isbn=9780872863354|page=[https://archive.org/details/reclaimingsanfra00/page/107 107]|editor1=James Brook|editor2=Chris Carlsson|editor3=Nancy J. Peters|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/reclaimingsanfra00/page/107}} Ralston's original plans to connect Montgomery Street to the waterfront failed due to the unwillingness of two property owners (governor Milton Latham and shipping baron John Parrott) to sell their mansions on Rincon Hill, which is why Montgomery Street South never got past Howard Street.{{cite web|title=The Silver Era, 1860-1870|url=http://foundsf.org/index.php?title=The_Silver_Era,_1860-1870|work=Shaping San Francisco's Digital Archive|accessdate=28 August 2013}}{{cite web|last=Bevk|first=Alex|title=Then & Now: Latham Mansion/666 Folsom Street|url=http://sf.curbed.com/archives/2012/05/18/then_now_latham_mansion666_folsom_street.php|work=Curbed|accessdate=28 August 2013|year=2012}}

Notable buildings

Landmarks and notable buildings along New Montgomery Street include the Palace Hotel (1875, rebuilt in 1909), the Sharon Building (1912), the Montgomery (1914, headquarters of the San Francisco Call until 1950), the Rialto Building (1902, rebuilt in 1910) and San Francisco's first skyscraper the PacBell Building (1924). Among the companies headquartered on New Montgomery Street are OpenTable, Trulia, the Wikimedia Foundation, Lumosity, Terracotta, and, as of fall 2013,{{cite news|last=Temple|first=James|title=Yelp signs Pacific Telephone Building lease to 2021|url=http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Yelp-signs-Pacific-Telephone-Building-lease-to-3547416.php|accessdate=7 November 2012|newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle|date=28 August 2013|archive-date=8 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121008132456/http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Yelp-signs-Pacific-Telephone-Building-lease-to-3547416.php|url-status=live}} Yelp. New Montgomery Street is home to the main campus of the Academy of Art University.{{cite web |url = http://www.academyart.edu/content/dam/assets/pdf/campus_map.pdf |title = Academy of Art University Campus Map |date = |accessdate = 23 November 2016 |website = academyart.edu |publisher = Academy of Art University |last = |first = |archive-date = 2 February 2017 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170202112947/http://www.academyart.edu/content/dam/assets/pdf/campus_map.pdf |url-status = dead }}

Gallery

File:2008-0602-SF-PalaceHotel.jpg|The Garden Court at Palace Hotel

File:Rialto Building, 116 New Montgomery St., San Francisco, CA 2-4-2012 3-23-24 PM.JPG|The Rialto Building

File:PacBell Building, San Francisco.jpg|The entrance of the PacBell Building

File:The Montgomery, San Francisco.jpg|The Montgomery

References

Category:Streets in San Francisco

Category:Financial District, San Francisco