Audiffred Building
- Style
- Second Empire
- City
- San Francisco, CA
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The Audiffred Building is a three-story brick commercial building on the corner of Mission Street and the Embarcadero, one of the few surviving waterfront structures on the land side of the street. It has housed waterfront bars and the headquarters of a seamen's union over the years, and today holds the Boulevard restaurant. It is San Francisco Landmark No. 7 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
the building
Mansard roof and iron columns. The building is brick with projecting brick quoins at the second-floor corners, capped by a wood-framed, tile-covered mansard roof laid in a diamond pattern. The ground floor has fluted cast iron columns whose capitals incorporate a floral letter 'A.'
the style
The Audiffred Building emulates the Second Empire style of late-19th-century French commercial architecture, most visible in its mansard roof and street-level cast iron columns.
More on Second Empiresignificance
It is San Francisco Landmark No. 7, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, and a California Point of Historical Interest. After the Embarcadero Freeway came down following the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, the building once again looks out on the waterfront it was built to serve.
nearby
- Rincon Center
- Folger Coffee Company Building
- San Francisco Ferry Building
- Pacific Gas and Electric Company General Office Building and Annex
- Hyatt Regency San Francisco
- Matson Building