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New Montgomery Street, formerly Montgomery Street South, begins at
File:2008-0602-SF-PalaceHotel.jpg, The Garden Court at Palace Hotel
File:Rialto Building, 116 New Montgomery St., San Francisco, CA 2-4-2012 3-23-24 PM.JPG, The Rialto Building
File:PacBell Building, San Francisco.jpg, The entrance of the PacBell Building
File:The Montgomery, San Francisco.jpg, The Montgomery
New Montgomery Street, formerly Montgomery Street South, begins at Market Street Market Street may refer to:
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and terminates at Howard Street Howard Street may refer to:
* Howard Street (Baltimore), a major street in Downtown Baltimore, Maryland
**Howard Street Tunnel fire, a disaster that struck the freight railroad tunnel under Baltimore's Howard Street in 2001
*Howard Street (Sheffiel ...
in the SOMA
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district of San Francisco
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, California
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.History
Before New Montgomery Street was created, an inner street called ''Jane Street'' ran parallel to Second and Third Street. In the 1870s, ''Montgomery Street South'' was established in its place as the southern extension ofMontgomery Street
Montgomery Street is a north-south thoroughfare in San Francisco, California, in the United States.
It runs about 16 blocks from the Telegraph Hill neighborhood south through downtown, terminating at Market Street. South of Columbus Avenue ...
, one of the main thoroughfares in San Francisco's Financial District
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, running north from Market to Telegraph Hill. The extension was strongly supported by businessman and Bank of California
The Bank of California was opened in San Francisco, California, on July 4, 1864, by William Chapman Ralston and Darius Ogden Mills. It was the first commercial bank in the Western United States, the second-richest bank in the nation, and considered ...
founder William Ralston – who started the construction of the original Palace Hotel, at the time the largest hotel in the Western United States
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– in an effort to expand San Francisco's business district to the yet undeveloped area south of Market. Ralston's original plans to connect Montgomery Street to the waterfront failed due to the unwillingness of two property owners (governor Milton Latham
Milton Slocum Latham (May 23, 1827 – March 4, 1882) was an American politician, who served as the sixth governor of California and as a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator. Latham holds the distinction of having the shortest governorship i ...
and shipping baron John Parrott) to sell their mansions on Rincon Hill, which is why Montgomery Street South never got past Howard Street.
Notable buildings
Landmarks and notable buildings along New Montgomery Street include the Palace Hotel (1875, rebuilt in 1909), the Sharon Building (1912), the Montgomery (1914, headquarters of the ''San Francisco Call
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''until 1950), the Rialto Building (1902, rebuilt in 1910) and San Francisco's first skyscraper the PacBell Building (1924). Among the companies headquartered on New Montgomery Street are OpenTable
OpenTable is an online restaurant-reservation service company founded by Sid Gorham, Eric Moe and Chuck Templeton on 2 July 1998 and is based in San Francisco, California.
In 1998, operations began with a limited selection of restaurants in ...
, Trulia
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, the Wikimedia Foundation
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, Lumosity
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History
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, Terracotta
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, and, as of fall 2013, Yelp
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. New Montgomery Street is home to the main campus of the Academy of Art University
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.
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References
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