450 Sutter Building

Specialties

Just off Union Square, the 450 Sutter Building is San Francisco’s première medical/​dental and professional office suite building. This beautiful and elegant 26-​story high-​rise, an Art-​Deco masterpiece, was designed by world famous San Francisco architect Timothy Pflueger. The building has achieved recognition as a San Francisco Historic Landmark, as well as being added to the U.S. Federal List of National Historic Places in 2010.

450 Sutter has many fantastic amenities for all visiting guests, including a 450-​car valet garage, the on-​site Sutter Street Café, the 450 Sutter Pharmacy, the Union Square location of Wells Fargo bank, ADA Certified Restrooms on each floor, two full time lobby attendants to assist with any questions guests may have and drop off boxes for USPS, FedEx and UPS.

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History

Established in 1929.

450 Sutter, a 26-​story historical landmark near Union Square, was the tallest building in San Francisco when it was erected in 1929. The neo-​Mayan, art deco skyscraper was created by San Francisco’s famous architect Timothy L. Pflueger, the designer of the Pacific Stock Exchange, Union Square Plaza, the Castro Theater, and the original California Academy of Sciences. 450 Sutter was the first West Coast skyscraper designed to withstand an earthquake and the first building where all of the suites were finished to the specification of the tenants, a revolutionary idea at that time.

The ornate lobby is popular with walking tours and featured in many architectural books because its rare Napoleon Grande Mélange marble walls, elaborate bronze-​finished Mayan ceiling, and exotic bas-​relief carvings. The city recently renamed a small street behind the building to ‘Timothy Pflueger Place’ to honor its architect. Today the building is San Francisco’s premier location for dentists and doctors.

Meet the Business Owner

Horold S.

Business Owner

Harold J. Schnitzer, businessman, philanthropist, and civic leader, was born in Portland, Oregon on June 8, 1923. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in metallurgy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1944 and, immediately thereafter, served in the U.S. Army until his discharge in 1947. Upon returning to Portland he joined his brothers in the family scrap and steel business, Schnitzer Steel, working alongside them until 1950, at which time he left and founded Harsch Investment Properties.

Harold’s first purchase was the Claremont Hotel in 1954, which was owned until 1998. Additional real estate holdings in the Bay Area include, the 450 Sutter Building, Mason O’Farrell Garage and numerous industrial and office buildings in the East Bay. Together, he and his son grew the company into one of the largest, privately held real estate companies in the western United States. Harold passed away on April 27, 2011 at the age of 87 of complications from cancer and diabetes.

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