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Old American Architecture on Instagram: "Photos of the Call Building in San Francisco, California on fire in April 1906 after the 1906 earthquake and subsequent fires swept the city. In 1890, M. H. de Young, owner of the San Francisco Chronicle, built San Francisco's first skyscraper, the 218-foot (66 m) Chronicle Building, to house his newspaper. In response, John D. Spreckels and his father Claus Spreckels purchased the San Francisco Call in 1895 and commissioned a tower of their own that would dwarf the Chronicle Building. In September 1895, The Call wrote: “The San Francisco Call is to have the finest building ever erected for a newspaper office. It is to be built on the corner of Market and Third streets, of granite and white marble, and will be fifteen stories — 310 feet high, the highest building this side of Chicago. Unlike the Chronicle building it will be a beautiful building and a credit to its owner, Claus Spreckels, and worthy of the great paper to be printed within its walls. A light granite will be used for the first three stories, but above the third story white marble will be used. The main entrance or rotunda will be finished in some polished California marble, the very choicest obtainable, and the floor will be mosaic.” The building eventually stood 315 feet (96 m) tall with an ornate baroque dome—which housed the offices of Reid & Reid, the building's architects—and four corner cupolas when construction finished in 1898. It was the tallest building west of the Mississippi River for many years. The structure was badly burned and damaged by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, although the building did not collapse. The building still stands today but has been altered to a more modernist style. Description courtesy of Wikipedia. . . . . #sf #sanfrancisco #earthquake #baroque #oldarchitecture #architecture #architecturephotography #ig #photography #travel #oldbuilding #history #architecturelovers #travelphotography #oldbuildings #streetphotography #oldtown #photooftheday #oldarchitecturephotography #europe #old #raw #oldcity #nature #church #art #oldhouse #ancient #city #travelgram"