44 Montgomery

44 Montgomery
In 2021
44 Montgomery is located in San Francisco
44 Montgomery
Location within San Francisco
Record height
Preceded byHartford Building
Surpassed byBank of America Center
General information
StatusCompleted
TypeCommercial offices
Location44 Montgomery Street
San Francisco, California
Coordinates37°47′23″N 122°24′06″W / 37.7898°N 122.4018°W / 37.7898; -122.4018
Construction started1964
Completed1967
ManagementSeagate Properties
Height
Antenna spire180.7 m (593 ft)
Roof172.2 m (565 ft)
Technical details
Floor count43
Floor area760,524 sq ft (70,655.0 m2)
Lifts/elevators18
Design and construction
Architect(s)John Graham & Company
Main contractor
References
[1][2][3][4]

44 Montgomery is a 43-story, 172 m (564 ft) office skyscraper in the heart of San Francisco's Financial District.[5] Groundbreaking was in the spring of 1964.[6] When completed in 1967, it was the tallest building west of Dallas, surpassed by 555 California Street (built as the world headquarters of Bank of America) in 1969. The building was designed, built and dedicated for Wells Fargo Bank, and their IT subsidiary was based there at one time (the bank's headquarters are at 464 California Street).[7]

44 Montgomery, as part of the original design anticipating the then-under-construction Bay Area Rapid Transit subway system, contains direct underground access to the Montgomery Street Station.

  1. ^ "44 Montgomery". CTBUH Skyscraper Center.
  2. ^ "Emporis building ID 118786". Emporis. Archived from the original on April 22, 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  3. ^ "44 Montgomery". SkyscraperPage.
  4. ^ 44 Montgomery at Structurae
  5. ^ "[Robert M. Haynie signing a contract for structural steel to be used in a new Wells Fargo Bank building while Fred McPherson and D. R. McCaa look on] | San Francisco Public Library". digitalsf.org. Retrieved 2021-08-04.
  6. ^ "Dancing Stallion". San Francisco Examiner. April 17, 1964. p. 68.
  7. ^ Some sources (as well as news reports during construction) list 44 Montgomery as the Wells Fargo world headquarters, but Wells Fargo annual reports going back to 1967 list either 464 California Street or 420 Montgomery Street as the official headquarters for Wells Fargo Bank and Wells, Fargo and Company (after 1969).