Name/Title
Album, PhotographEntry/Object ID
2006.013.0007.27cDescription
Page 27 photo 3 of a bound photo album with scenes of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake and fire.
back says "Monadnock"
The Monadnock Building was designed by celebrated architect Frederick H. Meyer (1876-1961). He was born in San Francisco and began his career in the early 1890’s as a draftsman for a planing mill. A prolific designer and fellow of the AIA, Meyer was responsible for many of the public, commercial, and industrial buildings designed in the San Francisco area after the 1906 earthquake and fire. His work comprises a wide range of building types throughout the state.
Construction on the exquisite Beaux-Art style Monadnock Building began in 1906. Before its west wall was even completed, the Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire struck. Somehow the building managed to survive not only those calamities, but two separate attempts by the U.S. Army to destroy it with dynamite, hoping to create a firebreak that was intended to save the original Palace Hotel.
After the Monadnock was completed in 1907, it was
marketed as a "Modern Fireproof Office Building",
a very desirable trait after the events of 1906.
The word monadnock originally comes from the Abnacki Indian language of the Eastern United States and means "mountain that stands alone".
Photos have been removed from album to better protect them. Each page of the album is listed as a separate item and each photo on that page is listed separately.Collection
Benicia Historical Museum Collection
