Rialto Building
- Architects
- Walter Danforth Bliss Frederick Herman Meyer Smith O' Brien Meyer and O'Brien
- Style
- Renaissance Revival
- City
- San Francisco, CA
The Rialto Building is a Renaissance Revival commercial building in downtown San Francisco, individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Its design is credited to the San Francisco architects Walter Danforth Bliss and Frederick Herman Meyer, along with Smith O'Brien, reflecting the firm-based practice common to the city's downtown building trade.
the style
The building's Renaissance Revival design gives its street-facing facade a classical, palazzo-like formality typical of the commercial architecture Bliss, Meyer, and O'Brien produced for downtown San Francisco in this period.
More on Renaissance Revivalthe architect
The Rialto Building's design is attributed to a group of prominent San Francisco architects: Walter Danforth Bliss, Frederick Herman Meyer, and Smith O'Brien, whose firm Meyer and O'Brien was active in the city's downtown commercial building trade.
significance
The Rialto Building is individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
nearby
- 140 New Montgomery
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- Ritz-Carlton Club and Residences
- Building at 735 Market Street
- Contemporary Jewish Museum
- Hallidie Building