Sentinel Building
- Architect
- Salfield & Kohlberg
- Style
- Beaux-Arts
- City
- San Francisco, CA
- Collection
- the city beautiful
The Sentinel Building is a copper-clad flatiron tower built in 1907 at the wedge where Columbus Avenue meets Kearny Street, designed by Salfield & Kohlberg in a Beaux-Arts style. Construction was underway during the 1906 earthquake, and the building survived it; it later became the longtime home of Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope Studios.
the building
Copper-clad flatiron form. The building's narrow triangular footprint fills the acute angle where Columbus Avenue crosses Kearny Street, wrapped in a green-patinated copper skin that has made it one of North Beach's most recognizable landmarks.
the style
Beaux-Arts detailing dresses up the tight triangular flatiron site, a distinctive pairing of an ornamental European style with a copper-clad American commercial form.
More on Beaux-Artssignificance
The Sentinel Building is a San Francisco Designated Landmark and has long housed Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope Studios.
nearby
- International Hotel
- Fugazi Bank Building
- Colombo Building
- Transamerica Pyramid
- Bank of Italy Building
- National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi