The I. Magnin Building is a former

I. Magnin I. Magnin & Company was a San Francisco, California-based high fashion and specialty goods luxury department store. Over the course of its existence, it expanded across the West into Southern California and the adjoining states of Arizona, Oregon, ...

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Oakland, California Oakland is the largest city and the county seat of Alameda County, California, United States. A major West Coast of the United States, West Coast port, Oakland is the largest city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, the third ...

located at 2001 Broadway. It was built in 1931 and designed by architecture firm

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. It housed the upscale department store until it closed in 1995. The building's green terra-cotta facade and

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ornamentation make it a prominent landmark and a local visitor attraction in the

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neighborhood. The building's interior was completely renovated in 2000, and it now houses retail and office businesses. It had more than 92% occupancy as of 2013. In 2016, Athen B Gallery arranged for

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to paint a mural on the windowless rear wall of the building. Martinez painted lilies inspired by Mexican folk art.

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