'The Pacific Telephone Building'

The Pacific Phone Building rose up at 140 Montgomery Street to be San Francisco's firs skyscraper. It was built in 1925 for $4 million and provided offices for 2,000 workers. With its fresh look of verticality and its Art Deco lobby, including the reddish ceiling full of unicorns, phoenixes and clouds Dressed in highly reflective, granite colored terra cotta exterior panels, it presided over the city for 40 years.