Grant Building - Revision history

Ccarlsson at 06:10, 17 May 2026

2026-05-17T06:10:41Z

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Ccarlsson at 06:08, 17 May 2026

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	''Photo: Chris Carlsson''		''Photo: Chris Carlsson''

			[[Image:1886 7th and Market Elevated view southwest across intersection to the Odd Fellows Hall, southwest corner of 7th and Market Streets opensfhistory wnp37.03523.jpg\|800px]]

			'''Same view in 1886 when the Odd Fellows Building looked rather different than its appearance more than a century later.'''

			''Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp37.03523''

	During the "dot-com" boomlet of 1999-2000, the building was purchased by Scott Seligman, which was soon followed by a 400% raise in rents. Tenants organized into a building-wide association to avoid the rent rise or eviction, and in a rare case of commercial tenant organizing, they succeeded in staving off the new owner's plans.		During the "dot-com" boomlet of 1999-2000, the building was purchased by Scott Seligman, which was soon followed by a 400% raise in rents. Tenants organized into a building-wide association to avoid the rent rise or eviction, and in a rare case of commercial tenant organizing, they succeeded in staving off the new owner's plans.
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Ccarlsson at 08:19, 2 January 2024

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 During the "dot-com" boomlet of 1999-2000, the building was purchased by Scott Seligman, which was soon followed by a 400% raise in rents. Tenants organized into a  building-wide association to avoid the rent rise or eviction, and in a rare case of commercial tenant organizing, they succeeded in staving off the new owner's plans.
 In the late 2010s the building was gutted and renovated and converted into a Japanese-owned Yotel.
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Lisaruth: added photo link

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	'''View southwest from center of Market toward 7th Street (Grant Building at left behind Merrills Drugs sign, followed by Odd Fellows Hall on opposite southwest corner of 7th and Market). Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson's motorcade travelling from SFO to the Fairmont Hotel. Stevenson waving to the people on the street. Sept. 9 1952.'''		'''View southwest from center of Market toward 7th Street (Grant Building at left behind Merrills Drugs sign, followed by Odd Fellows Hall on opposite southwest corner of 7th and Market). Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson's motorcade travelling from SFO to the Fairmont Hotel. Stevenson waving to the people on the street. Sept. 9 1952.'''

	''Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp31.00134''		''Photo: [https://opensfhistory.org/Display/wnp31.00134.jpg OpenSFHistory.org wnp31.00134]''

Ccarlsson at 02:09, 24 November 2020

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	'''View southwest from center of Market toward 7th Street (Grant Building at left behind Merrills Drugs sign, followed by Odd Fellows Hall on opposite southwest corner of 7th and Market). Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson's motorcade travelling from ~~SF)~~ to the Fairmont Hotel. Stevenson waving to the people on the street. Sept. 9 1952.'''		'''View southwest from center of Market toward 7th Street (Grant Building at left behind Merrills Drugs sign, followed by Odd Fellows Hall on opposite southwest corner of 7th and Market). Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson's motorcade travelling from SFO to the Fairmont Hotel. Stevenson waving to the people on the street. Sept. 9 1952.'''

	''Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp31.00134''		''Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp31.00134''

Ccarlsson at 02:08, 24 November 2020

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	'''View southwest from center of Market toward 7th Street (Grant Building at left, followed by ~~OddFellows~~ Hall on opposite southwest corner of 7th and Market). Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson's motorcade travelling from SF) to the Fairmont Hotel. Stevenson waving to the people on the street. Sept. 9 1952.'''		'''View southwest from center of Market toward 7th Street (Grant Building at left behind Merrills Drugs sign, followed by Odd Fellows Hall on opposite southwest corner of 7th and Market). Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson's motorcade travelling from SF) to the Fairmont Hotel. Stevenson waving to the people on the street. Sept. 9 1952.'''

	''Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp31.00134''		''Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp31.00134''

Ccarlsson: added photo

2020-11-24T02:07:47Z

added photo

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	During the "dot-com" boomlet of 1999-2000, the building was purchased by Scott Seligman, which was soon followed by a 400% raise in rents. Tenants organized into a building-wide association to avoid the rent rise or eviction, and in a rare case of commercial tenant organizing, they succeeded in staving off the new owner's plans.		During the "dot-com" boomlet of 1999-2000, the building was purchased by Scott Seligman, which was soon followed by a 400% raise in rents. Tenants organized into a building-wide association to avoid the rent rise or eviction, and in a rare case of commercial tenant organizing, they succeeded in staving off the new owner's plans.

			In the late 2010s the building was gutted and renovated and converted into a Japanese-owned Yotel.

			[[Image:VIEWSO~1.JPG\|800px]]

			'''View southwest from center of Market toward 7th Street (Grant Building at left, followed by OddFellows Hall on opposite southwest corner of 7th and Market). Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson's motorcade travelling from SF) to the Fairmont Hotel. Stevenson waving to the people on the street. Sept. 9 1952.'''

			''Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp31.00134''


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Ccarlsson at 22:52, 1 October 2012

2012-10-01T22:52:37Z

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	'''The Grant Building at 1095 Market Street (at 7th)'''		'''The Grant Building at 1095 Market Street (at 7th)'''

	''Photo: ~~The Bancroft Library, Berkeley, CA~~''		''Photo: courtesy Nate Berkowitz''

	[[Image:1906_grantbldg1.jpg]]		[[Image:1906_grantbldg1.jpg]]
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	''Photo: Chris Carlsson''		''Photo: Chris Carlsson''

	During the "dot-com" boomlet of 1999-2000, the building was purchased by Scott Seligman, which was soon followed by a 400% raise in rents. Tenants organized into a ~~[http://www.shapingsf.org/grant_bldg/index.html~~ building-wide association] to avoid the rent rise or eviction, and in a rare case of commercial tenant organizing, they succeeded in staving off the new owner's plans.		During the "dot-com" boomlet of 1999-2000, the building was purchased by Scott Seligman, which was soon followed by a 400% raise in rents. Tenants organized into a building-wide association to avoid the rent rise or eviction, and in a rare case of commercial tenant organizing, they succeeded in staving off the new owner's plans.

Lisaruth: added page content type, moved images around

2009-01-08T09:18:12Z

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-'''The Grant Building at 1095 Market Street (at 7th), built in 1904, has ceramic walls 2.5 feet thick and withstood unscathed the earthquakes of 1906 and 1989. In Suite 210, [http://www.shapingsf.org/history_ssf/history_shaping_sf.htm ''Shaping San Francisco''] was conceived and created between 1994 and 1997, echoing an earlier "History Factory" on Market Street between 3rd and 4th Streets. Suite 205 was [[TOM MOONEY |Warren Billings']] watch repair business after his release from Folsom Prison in 1943 until he died in 1972.'''
+'''The Grant Building at 1095 Market Street (at 7th)'''
 [[Image:tendrnob$grant-building$billings_itm$billings-business-card.jpg]]
 '''Warren Billings watch repair business card, Suite 205, Grant Building'''
 [[Image:7th-and-market 3318.jpg]]
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 During the "dot-com" boomlet of 1999-2000, the building was purchased by Scott Seligman, which was soon followed by a 400% raise in rents. Tenants organized into a [http://www.shapingsf.org/grant_bldg/index.html building-wide association] to avoid the rent rise or eviction, and in a rare case of commercial tenant organizing, they succeeded in staving off the new owner's plans.

Ccarlsson at 07:27, 29 September 2008

2008-09-29T07:27:20Z

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